Within my line of inquiry being about testing and music there are several things that I agree with. First off, I agree with the fact that most of the time students increase their test score by listening to classical or soothing music. I support this because I was able to find a study that proved this to be true. In the study "Research Matters", Christopher Johnson found that the students in the study performed higher when they had classical music playing in the background of the test. With this being proven, classical music has more instrumental changes and instruments that acquire our brain to work harder on the task at hand (Johnson 4).
When the brain hears music that has lyrics, we process the lyrics and the music differently and independently (Anderson, par. 4). Anderson has stated that in a piece of lyrical music there are two parts, the lyrics and the background music. When we listen to this our brain processes the two parts independently (Anderson, par. 4). If we listen to lyrical music while doing an assigned task some students say they can study better than with no music (Anderson 2). This may or may not be able to be proven.
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