The influence of distracting familiar vocal music on cognitive performance of introverts and extraverts

Ávila, C.; Furnham, Adrian; McClelland, Alastair

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“…Background music is reported to facilitate socially constructive and sociodramatic play (Love & Burns, 2007), positive child-to-child interactions (Godeli et al1996) and to have a positive influence on aspects of children's cognition, including mathematics test scores (Rauscher, Shaw, & Ky, 1993b). Some studies of older children's reading performances indicated the positive effect of background music (Carlson, Hoffman, Gray, & Thompson, 2004;Schellenberg, Nakata, Hnter, & Tamoto, 2007), whilst others report a negative effect (Anderson & Fuller, 2010;Avila, Furnham & McClelland, 2011;Boyle & Coltheart, 1996), or no significant difference concerning whether music was being played in the background or not (Johansson, Holmqvist, Mossberg & Lindgren, 2011).…”

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Teachers’ Perceptions about the Use of Background Music in Preschool Free Play Time

Lee¹,

Welch²

2017

Pac Early Child Educ Res Assoc

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The allocation of free-play time in an early childhood curriculum provides opportunities for child-centred learning and gives children a chance to explore safely the world around them. However, previous literature suggests that the beneficial use background music during free-play time is contested and that further research would be useful. A specially designed survey was sent to teachers in Seoul, Kyoung-gi, and Choong-chung provinces in South Korea by e-mail and supplemented post-survey by n=12 in-depth interviews. Data from n=127 surveys were gathered for final analyses.The responses were divided into two main categories: the case for the use of background music during free-play time and the case against. The numbers of teachers in each category were similar. 54% of teachers reported using background music for children's free-play time and transitions, both in accordance with children's preferences and also to facilitate a musical sound environment for children's play; however, 46% of teachers did not use background music because of a perception that it would create noise problems in the classroom. Selected background music tended to be of medium tempi, with or without lyrics, often calm and quiet, with medium or soft dynamics. Music choices related to the perceived mood of the music, children's perceived preferences, and the music's relationships to a chosen educational theme. The majority of teachers who used background music during free-play time reported that this was also helpful in the learning of songs or to support content-related curricular themes.

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Teachers’ Perceptions about the Use of Background Music in Preschool Free Play Time

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Welch²

2017

Pac Early Child Educ Res Assoc

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“…One simple and effective way is to improve the stage performance. Stage to divert the attention of the concert, which will come from the stage and audience pressure into how vocal singing and performing perfectly, auditory and visual feast bring an audience, through singing the change of thought into the stage singing confidence [7]. Such as "the audience will not because I am not good enough and intense reaction", "the audience is not interested in singing to me", "the audience is not care about my dress" into "how to sing to attract the audience's applause and cheers", "how to inspire the audience to sing interest", this concert will be able to divert attention from the audience to the stage, performing and relaxing.…”

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On the importance of stage performance in vocal music performance

Lei¹

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 4th International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT 2017)

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Abstract. Vocal music cannot be separated from the performance of the stage, and the stage performing arts must be accompanied by national vocal music. The two promote each other and influence each other. The charm of the stage show is that it can make the theme of unwritten music art more vivid, so that the vocal music in the process of emotional expression is more abundant. The singing of stage performance can drive the emotions of the audience, helps the audience to grasp the choral singing emotion, help lead singer and audience, showing perfect help stage performing arts and singing art. Stage performance will be strident music from the simple form of singing to the development of a vivid image of the stage show, so that the vocal music becomes vivid, giving a strong vocal singing vitality.Chinese culture has a long history, from prehistoric times to the present, has a history of thousands of years of civilization, its performance in all aspects of civilization, such as the four inventions, etc.. As a part of Chinese national art, the Chinese domestic vocal music has its unique artistic charm and cultural value [1]. With the development of society and the progress of the times, national vocal music performances with the times change, the traditional national vocal music form is single, although also pay attention to skills and singing, songs can be very vivid, most of the audience can get appreciation and praise, consistent with the public aesthetic ability, but the traditional vocal music form the lack of infectivity, unable to show the charm of the stage. Traditional national vocal music includes the Chinese national opera art and the National Opera and so on. Many of the singing skills are combined with the western domestic art to show their unique artistic charm. But if there is no singing with the stage show, there is a lack of unique charm, loss of infectivity, is not a perfect interpretation of its artistic charm, so singing should be combined with the requirements of the stage, singing must have basic singing very solid and skillful performing skills, only the perfect combination of the two the vivid artistic charm, to the national vocal show to the audience, to carry forward the forms of vocal music.1 The relationship between vocal music and stage performance. As a multi-ethnic country, China has different forms in the process of federal vocal music singing. Composed of fifty-six ethnic groups in the family, because of various ethnic customs, local customs, culture is different, in choral music singing form and expression skills also varies in different [2], these can be seen from the folk songs and performances. And the continuous development and progress in vocal music, stage performance have increasingly become the theme of the stage, with each other, it will influence each other and singing, singing the most incisive interpretation of national vocal music, from more rich and colorful.In today's rich material life of the times, people continue to pursue spiritual satisfaction. Vocal music is a fo...

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“…Based on the combined results from rated questionnaires about music familiarity and perceived level of distractions, the authors concluded that familiarity with song lyrics produces a small but non-significant effect on performance and that people have poor assessments of the degree of WM performance degradation resulting from irrelevant background noise. Consistent with the above study, Avila, Furnham, and McClelland (2012) assessed the effects of familiar vocal and instrumental music on the cognitive performance in verbal, numerical, and logic tests of 58 subjects. Instrumental and vocal versions of music pieces were identical except for the absence of vocals in the instrumental version.…”

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“…While most studies show that listening to instrumental and vocal music impairs performance of a cognitive task (Alley & Greene, 2008;Avila, Furnham, & McClelland, 2012;Cassidy & MacDonald, 2007;Furnham & Bradley, 1997;Salame & Baddeley, 1982;Smith, 1985;Stroupe, 2005), a few studies suggest that background music does not interfere with performance. For example, teenagers and college students have expressed lower levels of concentration and higher levels of distraction during academic assignments while listening to certain kinds of music (Jones, 2010;Schellenberg & Weiss, 2013).…”

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“…In that study, unlike the current one, background auditory stimuli were presented via headphones, and a working memory task was used. The detrimental effect of listening to vocal music during the performance of a verbal task was documented by Avila, Furnham, and McClelland (2012). Both instrumental music and vocal conditions caused significant impairment when compared to the performance of the task during silence.…”

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