Jazz. Pop. Rock. Alternative. A bunch of other genres I don't feel like listing. Even classical! All of these help your learn, study, and remember, so why can't we listen to our iPods at school? A survey by Mashable stated that nearly 30% of respondents reported to listening to music while they study, and I know from my own circle of friends at least half of them do, too. Studies have shown that listening to music while you study helps to cement the learning in your brain, which, because we're in school, is probably a good thing. Take classical music for example. In 2007, Stanford published an article about the beneficial power of classical music in concentration. Their results showed that certain parts of the brain that have been linked to paying attention were active as music played. In this specific case, researchers found that participents paid the most attention during the time in between the music. Yeah, studies like those are talking about classical music, but even weird pop music (One Direction, I'm looking at you) can help you learn. Let's take me as a scholarly example because why not? For a class, my group wrote a parody of the One Direction song What Makes You Beautiful (Yes, the one that plays a dozen times during gym) but replaced with lyrics describing elements, and it has been the only way that I remembered that it was Sir William Ramsay who discovered neon. By matching up boring facts about elements with the terribly catchy lyrics, I was able to remember the facts. Even if you don't have way too much time on your hands like I probably have to write parodies, music definitely helps concentration. Everybody listens to music, so why is it band in study halls.
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