By A.M Kolawole
Kathy sat with her legs dangling over the edge of the side of the hood. The band of her earphones held strands of straight copper hair that had come loose from two thick braids that hung down her back. She swayed with the music that only she could hear. Her shoulders raised, making circle in the warm air. Her arms reached out to bring the air back to her. Her arms reached over her head; her opened hands reached for the cloud; her closed hands brought the cloud back to her. Her head moved from side to side; her eyes opened and closed to the tempo of the tunes. Kathy was motion. -Claire Burke, student
Who can deny the ecstacy associated with the serine and rhythical flowing of a well composed music? Highly interesting, mind inspiration. Music, as many will say, motivates, educates, informates, and as you can see, transfers its listener from the world of solitary and dreary to a colorful enthusiastic state of mind. From now on, know if you have forgotten, it is an intellectual descipline for the happiness lover audience.
In colleges and universities nowadays, Common like guns during the military rule, norm or habit we can call it now, seeing students with or without earphones, listening to music while reading. Widespread enough, the practice called for attention. Your neighbor is eating cockroach you do not stopt him, when its repercussion comes, you will both do the vigil. What told you that music is bad for us? Students interrogated shouted out. Music is a source of energy that empowers cognitive ability to assimilate and digest what is under studying.
“I only have more understanding on what I read if I am listening to a soft background music” Ossagie emmanuel enthusiastically said. “If I don’t listen to music and reading, I feel like I don’t read, everything goes wrong way and I hardly assimilate. That is why I need music while reading.” There should be something charming in music. How can we fine-tune the issue? Who has two minds to hold to things at once? I wonder if they are special species.
Are the researchers quiet about this? They can neither sleep nor can they dose. “Researchers at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, United Kingdom, looked at the ability to recall information in the presence of different sounds. They instructed 25 participants between ages 18 and 30 try to memorize, and later recall, a list of letters in order. The study authors are Nick Perham and Joanne Vizard, and the study will appear in the September 2010 issue of Applied Clinical Psychology. Participants were tested under various listening conditions: quiet, music that they’d said they liked, music that they’d said they didn’t like, a voice repeating the number three, and a voice reciting random single-digit numbers.
The study found that participants performed worst while listening to music, regardless of whether they liked that music, and to the speech of random numbers. They did the best in the quiet and while listening to the repeated ‘three’.”
“Music can cause impairment of the brain.” Dense or bland, interesting or bored, as music has some recognisable positive sides, it can also lead to some severe problems. Dr. Nick Perham, a lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff confirmed this during his research on music.
But some researchers before him had spelled out the benefits in hearing music. “Subsequent studies suggested that this wasn’t correct,” Perham says. Should we not listen to music again? He advised that it should be before studying if it is a student source of energy and relieve.
Why should I advocate students to stop listening to music? Have I strongly persuade them to habituate themselves with it? Does that sound well enough? I believe that they can achieve some wonderful advantages and can help them psychologically and socially. While at the same time they should take note of the side effects of it while listening to it during reading or studying.
Every action has two sides; good and bad. It lays its hand on music also. It activates your torpor emotion, serve your wants and enriches your social scopes. But this new research suggests, what you may find useful, that it might be better to study for an exam in quiet, or listen to music beforehand.