studying and music............

[KingTut]

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O.K. since everyone here is a psychology expert i have a question:
Can someone really study while playing music, or is it not possible? I came here to ask this question since most of yall are experts on the brain.

The brain, so very complex
Peace to the world............😎
TuTuT

 

[Ollie123]

Um, what?
Do you mean like, study from a book while trying to play a violin concerto, or just listening to music while studying?

The latter is definitely possible, I've never heard of anyone attempting the former.

 

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[islandgirl1]

back on topic:
you may find this article useful- 'Listening to music may, may not improve studying'
http://collegian.ksu.edu/collegian/article.php?a=7808

 

[PsyKardinal]

Most likely the person may show a minor or insignifigant change in thier results of whatever they are studying for. After a while the person will habituate to the extra stimulus and it will not show much of a change occurring for the test studied for. Overall recommendation is that it really cant hurt, but if it is your roommate playing Led Zepplin at 22, when the dial only goes to 10, then you probably will not get used to it and just need to smack them with your DSM IV TR.

Jeff

 

[wdd]

As a recovering musician, I find it nearly impossible to study while listening to anything with drums. Classical music is all I can listen to while reading, if I want to retain anything other than how awesome that quick flam fill-in before the chorus was ...

My brother-in-law, who can't play any instruments, can study (and do very well) with any music cranked to 11.

Correlation? Anyone?

 

[Ollie123]

So it isn't just me!
I thought I had some kind of attentional problem. I had a very musical childhood and no matter what I listen to I find myself fingering an invisible violin fingerboard when classical music is on, or an invisible guitar fretboard when a non-classical song is on.

I got the impression he was just asking "was it possible" to study, not if it helped. I can do it, but I generally don't. Despite the abundance of "Mozart makes me smarter" crap, I think classical music helping you study was decided by a marketing department, since I've never seen any well-controlled studies showing that it does.

 

[wdd]

Despite the abundance of "Mozart makes me smarter" crap, I think classical music helping you study was decided by a marketing department, since I've never seen any well-controlled studies showing that it does.

I can't argue one way or the other about that, but for me, it almost puts me in a trance-like state, and my level of focus increases greatly. As a result, I screw around less, too.

 

[JockNerd]

So it isn't just me!
I thought I had some kind of attentional problem. I had a very musical childhood and no matter what I listen to I find myself fingering an invisible violin fingerboard when classical music is on, or an invisible guitar fretboard when a non-classical song is on.

I got the impression he was just asking "was it possible" to study, not if it helped. I can do it, but I generally don't. Despite the abundance of "Mozart makes me smarter" crap, I think classical music helping you study was decided by a marketing department, since I've never seen any well-controlled studies showing that it does.

I've heard the difference lies in what sort of music it is. Classical and instrumental stuff don't hinder and could help studying, but lyrical music is distracting--unless it's in a foreign language. The idea is that you can't take in words with both sight and audition at the same time. I'll try to find the paper I read on this, but it was years back so no promises 🙂

 

[Ollie123]

If you can that'd be awesome, though no worries if not.

Everything I've found on it looks like it was a study put out by a record label. That might explain my problems, since I have much more of an instrumental background (i.e. can't sing for ****), so I focus in on instrumentals almost completely, thus it always end up distracting me.

 

[kestrelcry]

I would imagine arousal a la Yerkes-Dodson comes in to play as well on this topic. If your personal optimal arousal level is very low and you are studying some thing particularly hard and interesting - you might be better off without music, whereas someone who is studying something easy and dull and has a higher arousal level, might need music in the background to bring their arousal up to their optimal level for learning. I know personally, I will now probably associate celtic music with the GREs for as long as live, more's the pity, but I'm happiest if I'm doing some sort of multitasking almost no matter what I'm doing.

 

[sicologia]

O.K. since everyone here is a psychology expert i have a question:
Can someone really study while playing music, or is it not possible? I came here to ask this question since most of yall are experts on the brain.

The brain, so very complex
Peace to the world............😎
TuTuT

I can only speak for myself and a few colleagues of mine, but generally trying to read anything while listening to music with words is a very difficult task. Therefore, if I listen to music while studying, it's typically jazz or classical. I save the rock and other stuff for my driving.

 

[sukurux]

http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/283.asp

http://www.springerlink.com/content/5728151r00117045/

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/lablouin/psych200/projects_sp01/music_reading.htm

http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/csjarchive/proceedings/2006/iccs/p201.pdf

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

I listen to classical music at a very low volume (to function as white noise), and I do the same with trance/trip-hop music. I'll count the rotations of the fan in my head if I hear it, so white noise is essential.

-t

 

[blindblonde]

Well, I'm odd in that I listen to music almost all of the time. I read, study, write, do stats, etc. while listening to classic rock/pop (or whatever my eclectic music taste deems suitable for the time). A professor actually allowed me to take an exam with my Ipod to help me focus. For me, I listen to music in order to block all other outside noises and distractions. Yes, sometimes my attention is on the song. However, as long as it is a song I know, I usually do not pay attention to the words, and the beat allows me to focus on what I'm doing.

Yes, I'm weird. But I've been doing this since middle/high school. It's worked for me so far, so I doubt I'll change it anytime soon. 😎