Direct Quotes For Music Essay

Direct Quote Despite all of the thoughts on music and helping you study it may have an opposing effect. Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University states“Music with lyrics is very likely to have a problematic effect when you’re writing or reading.” I believe this to be true, though I do like to listen to music in class it is very hard to focus on music and reading or your music and your teacher lecturing the class on your next assignment. Glenn Schellenberg a professor in the psychology department at the University of Toronto, published a study that indicates fast background music hinders reading comprehension “The reason why it's a mess is you have cognitive limitations if your doing two things at once you don't focus as well” From my own experiences I have concluded certain types of music are easier to comply with the education field such as an uplifting song with few …show more content…
Such as the type of music, the beat of the music, How fast or slow the tempo, Do you have a musical background? Is it a harmonizing tune:
Results indicated that people with more musical experience learned better with neutral music but tested better with pleasurable music. The opposite was true for people without music training. My explanation is that pleasurable music is a distraction for a musically trained person who could be expected to pay more attention and devote more cognitive resources to pleasurable music’s inherent structure in the process of analyzing and realizing its pleasing quality. Neutral music is more easily ignored(Klemm 1).
For this one will never simply have a down to point answer on whether or not music helps you in schools. Because with all the variables that exist it could help one kid while having the complete adverse effect with another. That is why to me it should be up to your personal preference of whether or not you listen to music.