- Title
- Music listening and its cognitive effect on learning
- Creator
- Freer, Angela Elizabeth
- Subject
- Music -- Psychological aspects
- Subject
- Music therapy Cognitive learning Music appreciation
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MMus
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/39807
- Identifier
- vital:35462
- Description
- This experimental study focuses on the activity of music-listening and its effect on students’ learning and memory. This is particularly relevant today given the ‘sound-consuming culture’ which results from advanced multimedia technologies. To determine music-listening’s effect on students, we examined the cognitive effect that music-listening had on their memory and learning. A non-probability convenience sampling technique was employed to recruit a limited population of 227 male and female participants from three Port Elizabeth high schools between the Grades of 8 and 9. A ‘two group design’ was used with 189 students (54 males; 123 females) completing a word-recall test and reading comprehension test. During the first round of testing all participants completed both tests under the first music treatment condition: silence. During the second round of testing, a second set of tests was provided with the experimental group placed under a treatment condition of self-selected background music while the control group remained under the condition of silence. Independent sample t-tests were used to analyse the data of this study. The results showed that listening to self-selected background music had a negative cognitive effect on students’ memory and learning during the completion of the word-recall tests. However, no significant effect was found in students’ ability to complete a reading comprehension. In addition, this study also showed that female students seemed to have significant negative cognitive effect during the word-recall test. The findings of this study therefore showed that, depending on the task, word-recall tests (but not reading comprehension tests) were cognitively affected by music-listening.
- Format
- ix, 167 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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