A quote that I may be able to use in order to show people who actually feel that music allows them to feel happier/more creative.

Another first person retelling of the positives of Music Therapy.

Definition of Music Therapy provided by quoting the people who actually seem to study and research the topic.

This is a good story to prove that there is more to music therapy than just merely making someones mood change a bit, but that it can actually cause a dramatic change in someones demeanor/disposition or the way they interact with others.

Can people go through music withdrawal?

Good because people tend to use music to escape, so does that feeling of wanting to escape take them away from their studying or draw them closer to it?

This is an interesting article to look at because of the fact that the person writing it starts out on the very personal side, but the slowly works their way into the actual study of things. I was hesitant about using the information at first because of the risk of bias, however I don't think there is as much as I originally thought.

This is the journal article that http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/AcademicJournalsDetailsPage/AcademicJournalsDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=false&displayGroupName=Journals&currPage=&scanId=&query=&docIndex=&source=&prodId=OVIC&search_within_results=&p=OVIC%3AGIC&mode=view&catId=&u=pioneer&limiter=&display-query=&displayGroups=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&documentId=GALE%7CA283593270&windowstate=normal&activityType=BasicSearch&failOverType=&commentary= is a summation on. Pretty dense topic, follows the different ways that they are influencing emotions from visual imagery to brain stem reflexes, that in hand might cause us to look differently at the way that music effects emotions.

This is a good paper to use because I had read earlier that music had an effect on people's emotions and I was going to look into how that change in emotion would cause a change in the level of attention that people had when they were studying.

1. The effect is extremely short-lived with the enhancement in spatial reasoning only lasting for 10-15 minutes.
2. The improvement is restricted to a quite abstract mental rotation task that is only a small part of the question when assessing intelligence.
3. Other studies were not able to replicate this finding.

This is interesting because this is the first time that someone has gone into the original study and analyzed it while comparing it to other studies, looking at the science of it, and the actual time frame that it works for.

These ideas are from the British Journal of Development and were written by P Mckelvie and J Law in 2002.

Another study that was performed that starts to look at the difference in listening to music while studying and the difference from person to person.

From the book Language Learning by AMB de Groot in 2006.

Music that puts you in a positive mood has a positive effect on your performance.

From the book Psychology of Music by EG Schellenberg, T Nakata, PG Hunter, and S Tamoto in 2007.

I have seen before that it depends from person to person, however, this is the first time that I am reading that personality may be the cause for that... look up more on the relationship between music and personalities.

Summary of the Mozart effect misunderstanding followed by a description of what the effect really is. Compare with some of the other definitions found to come up with a good one.

This is an important question to consider as people tend to think it doesn't and make a choice on the benefits of music based on that.

Again this is mentioned, this is definitely something that should be involved when choosing to listen or not!!!

Mentioned in another article, however, they said that the mozart effect is something completely different and was misunderstood to enhance intelligence.

This is very interesting, and something that I would like continue deeper in order to understand how it is that music really effects the brain. I wonder if it is this way for everyone or just a majority/minority of people.

This is good! This is some proof other than studies based on studying that show the effects that music has on the brain. The fact that is 'lights up' seems to be a positive.

An explanation on why this idea of listening to music while studying is called the 'mozart effect'. Good for using when explaining the idea of it. Commonly misunderstood, as people believed listening to Mozart mad one smarter.

Try things out for ones self to see if it works because everyone is different and that includes studying.

This is something very important to consider. It has been something mentioned regularly. I should look at some more specific types of music that can help and hinder, that isn't just classical and screamo.

This is interesting, I hadn't thought about the fact that people could be using music to fall asleep. It may good to research the effects of music on someones sleep and see if this is fact.

I have seen quite a bit that it depends on the people especially since each person has a different learning type, and while music might help some, it may only hinder others.

It is a good thing that it allows people who would usually be distracted to concentrate because without that people may struggle. I also think that it is important to see that having media distracts while the music can help concentrate.

I didn't know that music had such a strong affect on people, so strong in fact that it can change their heart rate. I wonder if that is because of the way it can change your mood, or that the sound waves do something...

This seems to be a very important idea because a lot of people study differently and it is good to keep that in mind when studying something that can vary so differently from person to person.

The fact that they give guidelines for the type of music that should be used or not is helpful. These requirements are quite easy to reach and with the broad choices in music, people have a better chance of having music that fits their taste while also keeping them focused.

Said by Stanford Professor Clifford Nass, in http://college.usatoday.com/2012/09/10/should-you-listen-to-music-while-you-study/. He brings up some good points as people could accidentally take what they are hearing and connect it to the words they are writing/reading. Look at difference between concentration for math and english.

Dr. Nick Preham's study in 2010, follows the idea the music can interfere with short term memory. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.1731/abstract is his full paper.

Interesting because on the flip side it may help people to focus if there is something canceling out the noise of the outside world. I should look up the difference between distraction from music and from noises of the world.