Does Listening To Music Whilst Studying Affect Your Ability To Memorize Facts?

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Does Listening To Music Whilst Studying Affect Your Ability To Memorize Facts?

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Answer 1

Yes, listening to music has been proven to enhance a persons ability to memorize facts. Music has also been found to aid relaxation and alleviate stress and depression. Dementia and Alzheimer sufferers have benefited from listening to pieces of music because it can increase their abilities to memorize.

However studies have proven that listening to any from of music that induces memory recall may in fact harm your levels of concentration and ability to memorize facts. Pop songs and your favourite tracks will almost certainly have a detrimental effect on your memory retention.

Music has been proven to help memorize facts.
It can also help to relax a person.
Music can reduce stress and depression.
Dementia patients have benefited from listening to music.
Pop songs will not help your ability to memorize information.
Your favourite songs will also have a negative effect, as these will cause memory recall.

Listen to classical music.

Classical music has been proven to aid a person's ability to memorize information. This is in contrast to pop music which has a negative effect. A pop song's repetitive hooks and catchy choruses increase memory recall and thus diminish your concentration - whereas classical music pieces are generally longer and less repetitive, and also seem to stimulate your brain's memory functions easier.

Answer 2

Listening to music while you study does affect you. Whether it's helping you or not, it still affects you. I agree that it depends on if you like music or not. I am doing a science fair project where I am testing people to see how well they do without music, with instrumental music, country music, and rap music. I like music when I study. It helps me focus on the material I need to study instead of the music.

Answer 3

Answer well I guess it really depends on what types of music you are listening to. It also depends on if you do or don’t like the music as you could be singing to it or you could just be blocking it out if you dislike the music

Answer 4

When I listen to country music while I study it keeps me from getting bored. For me it doesn't matter if it's fast or slow, rock or country. Just as long as I like it but don't want to dance or sing along to it. When I want to sing along it just distracts me from studying. If singing along becomes a problem I suggest listening to music with no words or music in a language you do not speak.

Answer 5

Well really it depends on what type of music you listen to. For example, rock and heavy metal aren't good choices when you are studying. It has to be slow and have really no beats.

Answer 6

Well I think it also depends upon the person - some people are distracted while they listen to music when working but some people aren't...

It might also be possible that by listening to slow music some people may read or memorize slowly and that by listening to fast music people might get enthusiastic and could learn faster...it might be possible or might be not.

Answer 7

Well, it's depending on the type of music you listen to.

Answer 8

As a matter a fact it does. Sometimes when you hear the beat to music you can even make a song using beat to memorize it better. Also at the same times it distracts people but in most cases it helps you memorize fact better.
- Raanesha Dowdell

Answer 9

Anonymous answered

Well I'm doing a science fair project and yes I think it does:)

Answer 10

Most definitely, unless your brain can differentiate between what you are reading and what you are listening to at a very rapid pace. And if it can do that then you wouldn't be asking that question in the first place , would you? :)