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Music, thinking, reading, and reacting

Submitted by Terrible2s on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 4:16pm.

In our experiment we tested the effects of listening to music on reacting, thinking, reading, and reading-negating. We did a preliminary experiment, and collected the results for the average time it took us to react, think, read, and read-negate. Next we listened to a Youtube clip of 20 heavy metal bands while doing our trial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKq8S1N2ryw). We then did the experiment with no music once again, then with music again. We then took all four trials of data and analyzed our results.

For Terrible2s:

Their results all ended up being similar, showing no significant changes between trials.

For HM:

 There does exist a minute difference between the non-music/music results.  I have appeared to have been faster without music. 

For DC:

Time to Act, Time to Read, and Time to Negate consistently went down when I was listening to music. However, Time to Think consistently went up.

Results may have varied due to subjects becoming used to the trials, subjects becoming tired, or other similar factors.

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