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Music and Memory Efficiency: The Impact of Existence or Absence of Lyrics on Verbal Memory Performance
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Abstract
A large body of assessments have been conducted to demonstrate the impact of music on cognitive abilities, yet few of them are about how the existence or absence of lyrics can have influence on verbal memory performance. This study consists of a between-groups behavioural experiment which tested 30 high school students between ages of 16 to 18. Three groups of participants were asked to recall a list of words when exposed to environments of music without lyrics, music with lyrics, and no music. The paper hypothesized that the presentation of music with lyrics will reduce verbal memory performance compared to music without lyrics. An ANOVA statistic analysis indicated that the results for the experiment were non-significant.
Keywords
music, short-term memory, verbal memory., lyrics
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2022), Part II
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-09-6
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-10-2
- Published Date
- 01 March 2023
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7048
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7056
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7048/3/2022457
- Copyright
- 01 March 2023
- Open Access
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