i'm trying to make the point that it is very difficult to concentrate on your studies when you are listening to music in the background. i am conducting this experiment because i have been told by many of my students that they often prepare for tests and exams by sitting in their bedrooms or at the library with a pair of headphones on blasting tunes from their ipods while they attempt to memorize the material from the year. i have always believed that it is virtually impossible to focus one's attention on one's studies if one is distracted by an outside sound source or visual image, like loud music or the television or facebook. and so this post is being prepared while i sit in my living room with my earphones on blasting the foo fighters' single "best of you" at maximun volume. i will not attempt to edit this entry when the song comes to an end - i will simply allow you the opportunity to judge my writing abilities while they were carried out with the benefit of musical accompaniment - namely dave grohl and his band. there. the song is over. how did i do? can you make any sense of what i've written? because this is your brain on music.
p.s. spellcheck only found one error. can you find it?
the source of my distraction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_L4Rixya64
p.p.s. uh, good luck tomorrow, rs.
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Found it! "Maximun"... I always make that mistake... the “m” is always too close to the “n”. I wonder why the letters are positioned the way they are on the keyboard. Who got to pick and choose the locations of such keys anyways?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I forgot to mention that it took me a few read-overs for me to finally find that typo. And did you know that if the first and last letter of a word stays in its proper position, the letters in-between can be scrambled up and the brain can still read the word correctly? For example, “If I wree to mix up tsehe sceteled wdors, you colud stlil fuirge out waht I am tyrnig to say. The mnid atcs in sgtanre wyas, dno’t you thnki? Now, waht wuold be rlelay cool is if you wtore an eitnre bolg ertny lkie tihs. Hwveoer, it deos tkae a lnog tmie to tpye a wlohe setcenne lkie tihs”. Take it like a challenge when you get tired of marking those business summatives. Or when you need to kill time before the next England or USA match. =)
ReplyDeleteever heard of mozart effect.
ReplyDeletestudies show that students who listen and/or play mozart score higher on tests.
i can ONLY study and CONCENTRATE when there's music. It calms me down and let's just say, nothing else can.
you made many grammatical errors.
left out a bunch of commas.
p.s. maximum
Nice for referencing the mozart effect when it _does not apply here_.
ReplyDeleteThe mozart effect applies when they listen to mozart during their SPARE TIME, and not while studying.
If they were to write a test when music is on, they would score significantly lower, because your brain spends time to switch between the task of transforming the sound waves from your ear into "music" and going back to your eyes/hands to read/write.
I would post a link to my blog post about this but that would be rude to Mr. Aurum.