Should you listen to music while learning?

We’re back with Season 2! To kick us off we look into the research behind music - does it help students study better? Does it help them focus? We’ll find out.

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Show notes: 

1. “Dual coding theory” (multimedia learning)
   - Sweller, J. Implications of Cognitive Load Theory for Multimedia Learning. Appeared in The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (2005).
2. “Phonological loop” and “Visual-spatial space pad”
   - Same reference.
3. Music, learning, & memory
   - Balch, W.R., Bowman, K. & Mohler, L.A. (1992). Music-dependent memory in immediate and delayed word recall. Mem Cogn 20, 21–28.
   -How We Learn by Benedict Carey (2015)

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