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| Published: March 31, 2021
Effects of Auditory Simulation and Personality Types on Working Memory
BA, final year,Department of Music, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
BA, final year,Department of Music, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.144/20210901
DOI: 10.25215/0901.144
ABSTRACT
Working memory is very crucial as it influences higher cognition. We conducted a study testing auditory simulations effect on working memory while considering personality type. 161 participants college students did the Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ-R) as a pretest, followed by reading a prose with an auditory simulation based assigned group (pop, classical, white noise and silence). Then they answered multiple-choice questions based on the prose in silence. We found that pop and classical groups did better, although the difference across groups was not significant. Hence auditory simulations have no negative or significant positive effects on working memory, furthermore, unlike previous studies, personality didn’t affect performance. Future studies can consider participants’ preferences and context-dependent memory to better explore this phenomenon.
Keywords
Prose Retention, Working Memory, Auditory Simulations, Extraversion And Introversion, Music, White Noise
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, David N., Muzeyi K. & Prasadam S.E.
Received: January 16, 2021; Revision Received: March 21, 2021; Accepted: March 31, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.144/20210901
10.25215/0901.144
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 1, January-March, 2021