What kind of music do you listen to while doing homework?

Trance or house podcasts/live sets, downtempo, electronic, sigur ros, explosions in the sky...other sick instrumental bands.
 
Says I just took my neurobiology final yesterday and it's one of the very first things we learned in the course. Also that's why I said music with voices primarily, instrumental tracks, especially classical, don't have the same effect as say a rap song would. Your brain can only focus on one thing at a time, if it continuously switches back and forth between perceiving words in the song with the math problem, it doesn't work nearly as efficiently as if it were focused on the problem alone. I listen to instrumental tracks occasionally when I study, just gets too boring without. But never music with people singing.
 
II was studying but that trumpet solo is just too damn good to not listen to!

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word I agree. (and for the record have a bio degree but haven't taken neuro yet). My rationale was that when someone listens to music, the alternative isn't pure silence, rather, it's a library or a dorm room setting where other persisting distractions. Ive read a fair amount of studies on the subject and most of the conclusions for why some people (usually men) do better with (usually classical) music present are based on that concept.... that music is better than a noisy/distracting alternative.
 
Oh yeah, yeah I'm a senior but actually a Physiology major, neuro just interests me so I've taken several classes on it such as Biopsych, neurophysiology, and now neurobio haha. I've read those studies about classical as well, I didn't say it in my original post but as long as the music is more instrumental and chill, even electro/trance music that doesn't take a lot of processing, it can be beneficial.

Personally while studying, big fan of Lindsey Stirling, 2cellos, Tiesto, aaand my classical for studying pandora station.
 
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