You've probably heard that classical music is good for studying, taking tests and doing creative work. This idea stems from the "Mozart Effect," a term coined in 1993 when scientists discovered that ...

The Daily Campus Life Section discusses whether listening to music while studying is s productive way to stimulate college students, or if it’s a distraction. Photo by felipepelaquim/Unsplash. Yet ...

December brings fall semester's final exams and some students turn to music to help while they study. But is that a good idea? A September article from University of Maryland Global Campus touts the ...

I can’t work in silence. And if I’m working with words—which is most of the time—I can’t work while playing typical pop, rock, or hip-hop. So I collect instrumental and foreign-language music on a ...

Headphones can seem ubiquitous in a college library, a function of responsible students’ attempts to isolate themselves from the conversations and noises around them. However, another form of ...

For students taking (online and take-home) exams this month, a new study reveals a possible way to improve memory recall: Listening to music while studying — and having that same music playing during ...