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

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BertBoyd
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I find music helps me do my homework and concentrate.

My Pandora stations for homework are:

Neil Young Radio
Bob Dylan Radio
C.S.N.Y Radio

What music do you listen to?
Dec 18 2013 9:12PM
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Wompuscat
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None, and any of you saying you focus better with music(mainly with voices) are wrong. Your brain cannot multitask, it's physically impossible. For your brain to process the voices in the song it has to shift attention away from study material, effectively making you not learn it as well.
Dec 19 2013 6:46PM
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cheaaaaaa
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says who? and if one is listening to an instrumental track to drown out the voices of people they would otherwise be hearing (in a library for example) isn't that for the better?


For me, I can only listen and work for topics like math, physics, and chem. But as soon as the subject requires articulating verbal responses the music has to be very low or off.
Dec 19 2013 8:16PM
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ZeMagnificentKev
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cg1at6ojk
skip to 0:30 for reply
Dec 19 2013 8:28PM
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DENIM_CHICKEN
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Jazz is the best music to listen to, and any chill instrumental. I just put "A love supreme" on repeat whenever I do my homework.
Dec 19 2013 8:35PM
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thebeesknees
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Hell yeah man. Love supreme is pretty intense though, I would need something a little more relaxed
Dec 19 2013 8:43PM
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SteezyMagee
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Blackmill, every time.
Dec 19 2013 9:01PM
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Dwarftosser1
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Cinematic orchestra, awesome for studying and just relaxing.
Dec 19 2013 9:25PM
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SimplyClean
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Trance or house podcasts/live sets, downtempo, electronic, sigur ros, explosions in the sky...other sick instrumental bands.
Dec 19 2013 10:56PM
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Wompuscat
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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.
Dec 19 2013 11:05PM
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tds103
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Silence, it helps me concentrate.
Dec 19 2013 11:08PM
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DizzyG
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II was studying but that trumpet solo is just too damn good to not listen to!



Dec 19 2013 11:10PM
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DizzyG
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Nooooooo, I forgot to preview.

Anyway here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxeb0cwjE8U
Dec 19 2013 11:13PM
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Theduke1
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WU TANG
Dec 19 2013 11:33PM
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cheaaaaaa
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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.
Dec 20 2013 12:17AM
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Yaraelpoof.png
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nothing with words. Booker t and the green mg's mo' onions
Dec 20 2013 9:50AM
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Wompuscat
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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.
Dec 20 2013 10:06AM
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