Effects of Music Preference on Short-Term Memory

In NYU's Psychology of Music course, I spearheaded a team project that involved conceptualizing, researching, experiment designing, data collecting, analyzing, and interpreting statistical results with the overarching goal of addressing the effects of music preference on short-term memory by studying participant responses to verbal stimuli tasks in accordance with control/self-selected musical excerpts.

 

Throughout the course, I gained an understanding of musical behavior and experience, including how music is perceived, created and felt, among others. Some examples involve knowing how the brain is organized to handle different aspects of music such as rhythm, melody, harmony or timbre, or the link between music and emotion. Much of the learned material was interdisciplinary, often intersecting with music theory, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and computer science.