It can be said with certainty that music can not only inspire people's creative thinking, but also keep people excited for a long time without getting tired. There was a student who used to feel tired after studying for an hour. Later, he studied while listening to music. He continued to study for 3-4 hours without losing concentration and was tireless. Later, he was able to study for a long time without listening to music. Learned over time. From this point of view, listening to music has a positive effect on learning.

Experts from Harvard University in the United States found in research that wakefulness and sleep begin in the brain nerve stem, where a special type of cells - reticular cells, or "awake cells" - are arranged, which often move towards the brain. The cerebral cortex sends signals to wake you up. However, this kind of awake cells needs a certain amount of pressure to be active for a long time, and a dark, quiet and monotonous atmosphere can only play a role in weakening the pressure. As the pressure continues to weaken, sleep begins, which is why Excessive silence and monotony can easily make people sleepy. Therefore, I think that in order to keep students awake throughout the learning process, they should try to send an "alert signal" to the "awake cells" of the brain, that is, to put pressure on the "awake cells". So, the best way is, Music is the first choice.

However, lullabies cannot be used because their melody is monotonous and the rhythm is slow, which can only reduce the pressure on "awake cells" and easily make people fall asleep. It is also not advisable to use those "excessive sounds" that are too light, because they can make people depressed. Popular songs cannot be used because they have lyrics with certain ideological meanings that can cause thinking activities that are irrelevant to the learning task or even harmful. According to scientific experiments, it is best to use light music with strong lyricism that puts moderate pressure on the "awake cells" of the brain, has healthy melody, beautiful sound quality, and coordinated rhythm. This kind of music can make the brain's "awake cells" active instead of making people sleepy. It can also make people happy and energetic, beneficial to learning, and beneficial to physical and mental health. In fact, the solution to this problem needs to be explained based on learning principles, psychology, and psychophysiology.

First of all, learning is a kind of active mental work, and learning requires an environment that can provide active movement of the mind. An environment that is too noisy will dull people's senses, and an environment that is too quiet is not conducive to learning. Generally speaking, an ideal learning environment requires that the sound should not exceed 50 decibels. The ideal environment is a sleeping environment, which is 30-40 decibels. So it's so quiet that there's no background sound at all, okay? not good. Because an environment that is too quiet will create a subconscious fear in people, which will actually affect learning.

Second, learning requires more mental resources, and listening to music also takes up a certain amount of mental resources. Just think, if you listen to music attentively, can you still study wholeheartedly? Of course not. Does that mean I can’t play music? That’s not to say either. In fact, it's like what I just said. Music can serve as a background sound. But it's not really for "listening", but as a background sound. Because, for the same background sound, harmonious sounds can promote learning better than irregular sounds.

Third, from a physiological point of view, when the human body is in a light and harmonious sound environment, the human body will relax and feel two situations: one is drowsiness, and the other is sleepiness. Feeling refreshed. Different people will have different reactions under different conditions and cannot be generalized. According to physiological psychology, human physiology will affect people's psychology. When a person is in a state of refreshment, his thinking will be clearer; when a person is in a drowsy state, his thinking will be slower and less accurate.

Fourth, light and slow music takes up less human brain resources; intense and fast music takes up more human brain resources. Also, when two mental activities occur at the same time, they will affect each other. It also manifests itself in two situations: mutual promotion and mutual interference. When the nature of two mental activities is too similar or too different, they will interfere with each other. Only when the relationship between two mental activities is moderate, the two will promote each other.

Fifth, we should also pay attention to "subconscious learning", that is to say, while we are consciously learning, our subconscious is also involved in learning. This kind of learning is not conscious of us, but it plays an important role in reproduction and recognition. Playing music while studying may interfere with "subconscious learning."

Sixth, learning and recall follow a principle - "familiarity of the situation". Recall is easier when there are more similarities between the situation when people recall and the situation when they learned. Play music while studying, but of course not during exams. This artificially creates the inconsistency between the two situations. Theoretically speaking, it is certainly not conducive to learning. However, there is also a situation, that is, because music is not the only situational factor during learning, and the familiarity of this situation certainly cannot determine the quality of recall to a large extent. If music is played during learning, the quality of learning will be reduced. If it is improved, then even if there is such a little difference in recall, it can promote the learning effect when taken together.

To sum up, whether to play music or not cannot be generalized, but depends on the environment, the nature of learning, the nature of music, people's psychological characteristics, learning habits, etc.

This is why some people play music to promote learning, while others get the opposite effect.