... small quantities of information for a brief period longer than sensory memory. Selective attention is utilized at this time to regulate what information is transferred to short-term memory. Unimportant information is removed permanently (Coon, 1997). Memory performance can be measured by memory test, task performance, spatial task and other tasks which need to retrieve information from our memory. Few experiments have been done by researchers to find out whether if there is an effect on memory when paired with music. In one research, it was found that music distracts our memory performance when exposed to a music situation. An experiment which was conducted by McFarland and Kennison (1988) showed this situation. In this experiment, they assume through their studies that the right hemisphere of the brain processes music. All participants were to learn a finger maze consisting of 16 in. by 32 in. board on which the path was ...

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