how music affects brain activity

Title: How Music affects the brain’s productivity

II Purpose:
To assess which type of music: rock, reggae, classical, no music, and trance will raise or lower a right- handed junior male/female student ability to compute basic arithmetic problems.

Independent Variable:
The genre of music being played: rock, reggae, no music, classical, and trance.

Independent Variable as a Cause:
The brain is a muscle that thrives on stimulation whether it is from foods or math computation. The harmonic beats of certain types of music seem to stimulate neurons in the left hemisphere of the brain. These are the neurons that are responsible for complex forms of problem solving. The beats in the music stimulate these receptors thus making brain activity faster and more productive.

Dependent Variable:
The scores of each individual after listening to each genre of music over a 45 second interval of the time.

Dependent Variable as a cause:
Some gen...