Visual Cue Music Analysis

The purpose of this entire experiment was to see if music (a distraction) would affect how many time we could press a clothespin. We were hoping that the music would distract us from the pain we felt, and hopefully increased the amount of times we could press it. We even hypothesized that if we were distracted by fast-paced music, then the amount of total clothespin presses will increase. However, our hypothesis was not supported. The average amount of presses without music was 46.425, while the average amount of presses with music was only 43.9. The addition of music did not seem to affect the amount of presses in our experiment.

Reflexes are usually provoked by environmental stimuli such as pulling your hand away from a hot stove or reaching to catch a ball that has been thrown to you. Reflexes are controlled by the brain, and nervous system as messages from the brain quickly move through the nerves and into the muscles to perform specific functions. (Alexis Jenkins, 2013 http://www.livestrong.com/article/272875-how-does-music-affect-your-reflexes/) “The study showed that, in general, music quickened response time and that the influence of variety music was much more effective than that of the classical music. The study also showed that response time was shorter when stimuli was present in the left visual field, controlled by the right side of the brain, than when stimuli was present in the right visual field, controlled by the left side of the brain.” (Alexis Jenkins, 2013 http://www.livestrong.com/article/272875-how-does-music-affect-your-reflexes/) This was the basis of the experiment except we used more modern music in hip hop/rap. “Listening to music often affects one’s mood and behavior. It has the ability to make us anxious, calm, euphoric, as

Previous research on this topic included mixed results in regards to music, gender, and distraction. For one of our hypotheses, the results agreed with past research done on music and distraction. Although it was not significant, the data

The study that will be replicated is the study done by Nantais and Schellenberg (1999), which was a follow-up study for Rauscher’s experiment (1993, 1995), who’s aim was to conduct a study in which to test whether music and spatial task performance are casually related. The aim of Nantais and Schellenberg’s study was to replicate and extend the basic findings of Rauscher et al which were that participants who listened to Mozart before taking a spatial ability test did better than those who sat in silence, also known as the Mozart effect. Nantais and Schellenberg expected that the performance on a spatial-temporal task was better after participants listened to a piece composed by Mozart or by Schubert than after the participants sat in

The participants for all three experiments were taken from a sample pool of college students from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich Germany. In addition, a pilot study was conducted before the three experiments were executed and utilized the same sample pool. The pilot study consisted of two pre-tests, which consisted of 40 participants. There were 28 women and 12 men for the first pre-test, and 39 women, 11 men for the second pre-test. In this study, no other participant characteristics were given besides gender. In each of the experiments in this study, the participants listened to two songs from each condition. Each condition

Running head: MUSIC AROUSAL ON RECALL 1Effects of Low and High Arousal Music on Recall Lexi Dunson, Wendy Chuandra, Diana Chaya, Courtney Babcock & Renyi YangPasadena City College

This article tests several hypotheses. The first and second hypotheses states that simple task switching will yield a longer reaction time than repeated task completion and the group with the “popular” music will yield the highest reaction times whereas the classical music group and the no music group will yield similar reaction times. The third hypothesis also includes participants who multitask will complete fewer task compared to the participants who perform single task. The last hypothesis state that the popular music will complete the least amount of tasks in comparison to classical music and the control group, the group without music. This study included 60 college students from a college in the Midwest. The participants were randomly

Abstract: This experiment tested the way that music with different tempo impacted the rate in which the heart pumped blood throughout the body. Music with varying tempo was played to subjects that were sitting and resting while they had a Pulse Oximeter attached to their index finger that monitored their heart rate. The songs played during this experiment were Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones (sixty-two beats per minute), Wild World by Cat Stevens (seventy-two beats per minute), and The Joker by Steve Miller Band (eighty-two beats per minute). Introduction:

The general purpose of this experiment is to find out if music affects one’s performance when exercising either negatively or positively. To test this, one could use any number of test subjects, although the design of this experiment requires one to test two subjects; one male and one female. Each test subject will be tested twice without music and twice with music. This experiment calls for four trials per test subject. Two trials were performed without music, and two were performed with music.

Overall, the article covers the correlation between brain disorders and musical processing. The authors, Camilla Clark and Laura Downey and Jason Warren, have a claim that recent findings in research allow us as a society to further understand the biological role of music. The evidence provided is quite useful for the authors and researchers themselves, as it assists in forming a more concrete answer as to what the role of music really is in our human society. Similar to the first article, there is a significant amount of data. But, in this article there is more data concerning the different responses that result from different types of music on different types of brain disorders. There are even full brain scans with highlighted parts that show which parts of the brain are responding to music. As for counterarguments, it would be quite difficult in this case to provide a counterargument because of how plausible the claim really is. Answers are forming from the extensive research, but the answer to what the true biological role of music hasn’t come up yet. As stated before, this article is almost entirely information and is certainly a scholarly form of text. There are no biases from what has been read so far. There isn’t much of a gap in the argument because the data that has been formed from the extensive research does show that we are learning more about the effects of

So to what extent does music impact the cognitive processes of the human brain? First of all, cognitive processes are processes that involve knowledge and how people use their knowledge. They include matters such as attention, memory, producing and understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. All of these are very important for human behavior. Music, in particular, has been used to assist in cognition for many years; recent advances in medical technology have provided evidence confirming the effects of music on the brain’s affective, cognitive, and motor components (Jones, 2010). All things considered, it is apparent that music has a very strong and lasting effect on the cognitive processes of the human brain.

In recent years it’s become noticeable that students are using all different forms of music to help them while studying or doing homework. When listening to music one may notice how that person may tap their foot or drum their fingers, even though they appear to be focused on the task in front of them. The rhythm of the piece, whether it is fast or slow, causes the listener’s heartbeat to synch with it (How Music Affects Our Mood, 2014). The question however is which music to listen to. In some studies, test subjects show that the louder the music the more distracted the subjects became (Manthei, 2014). Doctor Emma Gray, a clinical psychologist in Britain, says, “If you choose the right music for the topic you are

Music is a common source of enjoyment and expression among people as evident by large music broadcasting services, such as Spotify, iTunes, Pandora, and iHeart Radio. Whether it’s in an office or in a vehicle, people can listen to music everywhere. Since music tempo has been hypothesized to affect motor skills, many studies have explored the effects of music tempo on different daily tasks, such as driving, decision-making, and behavioral pace.

Music has been suggested to affect the body’s physiological patterns in many ways. A study done in 2003 (Yamamoto et. al) exemplified the wavering levels of neurotransmitters as the type of music was changed. When the participants listen to slow-rhythm music their plasma levels of norepinephrine decreased,

Music elicits an emotional and cognitive response in all who listen to it. It is powerful at the individual level because “it can induce multiple responses – physiological, movement, mood, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral” (Francis, 2008,