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Loading ...I've been asked several times if studying can be made more productive by having music playing in the background.
While going through college and medical school, I've met quite a few students who insisted they study better and learn more with this method.
Based on what I've learned over the years about the brain, however, I would most definitely recommend you not do this. If students following this technique are doing well on their exams, I would bet they'd do even better without the music in the background.
Came across a new study by Russell Poldrack out of UCLA, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that shows any additional stimuli in your study environment impedes the brain's learning systems.
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I beleive that if you listen to music while you study helps, because as i study and listen to music i helps me, because i can do my work beter by have music playing in my mind.Or maybe singing works to.
By: Shayla
I beleive that music helps you study better because it helps me. And i prefer sing to your self to.
Maybe a bit late to post this comment, but i don’t think this research is performed correctly. First of all, it is assumed beforehand in the research that listening to music while learning, distracts the learning process. But this is only true if you ‘actively’ listen to the music. In the research they made people listen actively to the sounds. Is that really what you do when you’re learning?
Although I have to admit that listening ‘passively’ to music for which you have some emotional bond (like a love song or a famous pop song), automatically distracts you.
But this isn’t true for relaxing music. When i learn while listening to music, i don’t actually hear the music in my head. I put on the music because at first it helps you relax. It also helps emptying the mind and it keeps you alert.
Second of all, I have read some articles on your page saying that we should stop treating the brain as single processor. If what you are saying is true (that different tasks e.g music, calculus or speech are performed in different parts of the brain) then it should absolutely not matter to talk, learn algebra and listening to music at the same time, without negatively affecting each other.
The only thing i want to make clear is that although scientists perform a lot of experiments and draw a lot of conclusions, not everything should be treated as true.
this might be even later for a comment lol… owel
um i think that it depends on what type of music you listen to.. firstly music with no words as it distracts your mind from what your trying to focus on, secondly, music that has a quite a slow tempo. This is all because this music slows down your brain and stimulates the alpha waves in your mind which i think are the waves used to help record information in your mind… im not sure, but something along those lines is right, im still a teenager so what would I know?? lol im actualy doing a huge presentation about this for music credits so ill leave another comment on here when i find out the information i need
Hey, as long as were digging up old bones, I’ll throw my $0.02 in!
I find that music is a motivator for me. If it’s something I don’t really find interesting, I’ll put music on and try to begin on it after a long series of procrastinating! In this way, I’m not really studying this boring stuff that I really have to do, I’m just listening to some good music. And seriously, who doesn’t like to listen to music.
When I start concentrating on the required material, I don’t hear the music anymore and I’m just focusing on the subject. When I get tired of concentrating, the music is there to provide a welcome break and it relaxes the mind to pile more junk in.
So I think it’s what works for you best in my opinion. I wouldn’t suggest it for everyone, because I know some who can’t concentrate at all with other distractions.
Ahhh, the early days of smartkit….