This aim of this study was to see if music affected the learning process of individuals. Researchers examined if the semantic aspect of music was disrupted, using a verbal and a spatial memory task. The participants in this study consisted of 46 undergraduate volunteers, 21 men, 26 women, with ages raging from 18-23. Eleven to twelve participants were assigned to four different conditions, one with no music, one with natural sound, and one with instrumental music, and one with vocal music. There were three tasks the participants had to complete, one was a verbal memory task, one was a spatial memory task, and one was a mental arithmetic task. For the verbal memory task participants were shown five patterns with four words presented for 4 seconds
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My experiment focused on the effect of popular music on working memory, long term memory, and short term memory. This study focused on working memory and verbal memory and found significance in music’s effect on verbal memory but not spatial memory, which is concurrent with the results of my study. My study did not find significance in music effecting memory. We did not test verbal memory but we tested working memory, which is part of spatial memory. I can add the results of this study into my introduction and discussion. In my introduction I can add it to help support the negative effects of music, saying that popular music has a negative impact on verbal memory because it affects the phonological loop, which is concurrent with another study I found. I can use them both to support that fact that lyrical music interferes with the processing of other information. I can also discuss this in my discussion of why my results were not significant. While we tested lyrical, popular music on memory, we did not use words for every condition and so therefore the music may not have interfered with the processing of information in the brain. I can also use this study as support for my limitations, this study also only tests young adults such as college students. I discuss how music can be beneficial to Alzheimer’s patients but studies tend to focus on the impact of music on studying habits and so forth on young adults but do not include older adults in their study and can therefore not generalize the results to all individuals because memory is an inconsistent factor and certainly differs with age and subject
My experiment focused on the effect of popular music on working memory, long term memory, and short term memory. This study focused on working memory and verbal memory and found significance in music’s effect on verbal memory but not spatial memory, which is concurrent with the results of my study. My study did not find significance in music effecting memory. We did not test verbal memory but we tested working memory, which is part of spatial memory. I can add the results of this study into my introduction and discussion. In my introduction I can add it to help support the negative effects of music, saying that popular music has a negative impact on verbal memory because it affects the phonological loop, which is concurrent with another study I found. I can use them both to support that fact that lyrical music interferes with the processing of other information. I can also discuss this in my discussion of why my results were not significant. While we tested lyrical, popular music on memory, we did not use words for every condition and so therefore the music may not have interfered with the processing of information in the brain. I can also use this study as support for my limitations, this study also only tests young adults such as college students. I discuss how music can be beneficial to Alzheimer’s patients but studies tend to focus on the impact of music on studying habits and so forth on young adults but do not include older adults in their study and can therefore not generalize the results to all individuals because memory is an inconsistent factor and certainly differs with age and subject