Does Music has an Effect on your Productiveness

Would we get distracted doing a test while listening to Music? That depends on the task.
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"Absorbing and remembering new information is best done with the music off." 

That is the conclusion after an experiment performed, were adults aged 18 to 30 were asked to recall a series of sounds presented in a particular order. Participants’ performance suffered when music was played while they carried out the task as compared to when they completed the task in a quiet environment. 

Other studies have found the following: 

1. A number of studies have found, for example, that surgeons often listen to music in the operating room and that they work more effectively when they do. 
2. A study presented at the International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, reported that singing along with music in a car may slow drivers’ responses to potential hazards. 
3. A Canadian researcher asked the participants in a experiment to learn the lyrics Singing these songs while operating a simulated car increased drivers’ mental workload, leading them to scan their visual field less often and to focus instead on the road right in front of them.

Facts: 

• Classical or instrumental music enhances mental performance more than music with lyrics. 
• Music can make rote or routine tasks less boring and more enjoyable. 
• Silence is for when you need to give learning and remembering your full attention.

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How does the Brain reacts to Music we like.

Researchers from Stanford reported that when listening to a new piece of classical music, different people show the same patterns of synchronized activity in several brain areas, suggesting some level of universal experience. 

The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track real-time brain activity as participants listened to the first 30 seconds of 60 unfamiliar songs. To quantify how much they liked the music, 

All of the participants had to listen to the same set of never-heard-before songs, and decide if they would be willing to buy the song. 

19 volunteers who had indicated similar preferences, mostly electronic and indie music. The researchers created a playlist with genre of music of the volunteers liked.

The brain scans highlighted the nucleus accumbens, often referred to as the brain’s ‘pleasure center’, a deep region of the brain that connects to dopamine neurons and is activated during eating, gambling and sex. It turns out that connections between the nucleus accumbens and several other brain areas could predict how much a participant was willing to spend on a given song. Those areas included the amygdala, which is involved in processing emotion, the hippocampus, which is important for learning and memory, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which is involved in decision-making.

It all depends on past musical experiences and these previous experiences become on templates.

So why is it that one person might spend $$ on a song while another pans it?  Whether you realize it or not, every time you’re listening to music, you’re constantly activating these templates that you have. Using those musical memory templates, the nucleus accumbens then acts as a prediction machine

This study reveals important information on the way the brain works, and we can infer a lot of things starting on the patterns that the brain show but lets just keep inform on this.

This is a extract. To view the full article: NatGeo

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Music Affecting Plants Growth

Based on a study and other sources. It was proven that a plant with music by its side grew up 21% more than a plant without any music around. They had a plant with music for 3 hours daily, for 14 days. It is not specified what kind of music was exactly used, however the following is in the report : "try to repeat the science fair project using different types of music like jazz, pop, rock or country".

Music and Growth

Research has shown that any sound has the ability to stimulate plant growth. In one study, plants that were exposed to sounds for six hours a day showed more growth than plants in a soundless control group. However, that same research showed that while music helped plants grow, it wasn't more effective than non-musical sounds. In other words, plants don't distinguish between music and other sounds. However, music does help plants grow

How Music Affects Growth

The exact cause of music's effect on plants is unclear. It is thought that plants may have "mechanoreceptors" that respond to pressure. Sound waves are made up of compressed air molecules. In humans, mechanoreceptors in the ears are able to detect and distinguish sound waves in the form of pressure as each wave strikes the inner ear. If plants have similar receptors, they too could respond to the changes in sound waves, such as those from music.

Plant Communication

Plants also seem to listen to the vibrations of one another. Plants that are near other plants tend to grow faster and healthier than those grown in isolation. Research suggests that plants may “talk” to one another via vibrations, and these communications let a plant know when it is safe to grow. Other research indicates that vibration from sounds such as music can turn genes on and off, indicating that plants may "listen" to their surroundings to know when to express certain genes. If scientists can gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, it is likely that sounds such as music could be used to promote growth.

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