The influence of various genres of music on the short-term memory of students in the learning process
Modern people, especially students, often surround themselves with musical accompaniment, combining it with various activities, in particular with teaching. At the moment, it is not unequivocally determined how music affects a person, despite the fact that there are quite a large number of research works in this direction in the world. The purpose of the work is to identify the influence of various genres of music on the verbal-logical memory of a person, depending on temperament and gender. Students participated in the experiment: 14 girls and 16 boys (19 years old - 21 years old). Temperament was determined by the test of G. Eysenck. Nine different genres of music were used. The authors studied the ability to memorize the written text to music and reproduce it according to the standard examination methodology of the Russian language. The memory level took numerical values. The significance of the difference in scores between different samples was determined using the Mann-Whitney test. As a result of the study, it was revealed that rap had a positive effect on human memory, regardless of gender for all temperaments. Piano music has the most beneficial effect on the memory of choleric young men. Electronic music had the most negative impact on memory for sanguine girls. Dubstep, regardless of gender, equally negatively affects the memory of choleric and melancholic people, and the influence of pop music turned out to be contradictory.