Scrutinizing the Impact of Music on Attention using Uddin’s Typo Revealing Test in Bangladeshi Juveniles: An Empirical Pilot Study

Abstract

This experiment describes the application of cognitive genetics to the study of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Participant’s age, experience, residual status can affect their attention and different types of songs also have different effects on their attention. This study was designed to determine attention of participants and how the songs affect their brain when they listen to songs of different categories. We have used two validated neuropsychopharmacological testing methods namely Typo Revealing (TR) tests for the determination of attention in healthy aged human participants. TR tests are done on them to check their attention efficiency. In this experiment mentally sound and physically healthy 280 male and female participants between the ages of 18 to 25 years old were arbitrarily selected and till last of the experiment all the participants ‘attended. The place of the experiment was East West University, North South University, Southeast University and Atish-Dipankar University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The participants were randomized into four groups with 70 participants in each as follows: N = 280 for each group. In control group the participants took the test without music and the percentage of cognition is 42.70±1.69.In the normal group the participants took the test with the normal music and the percentage of cognition is 45.27±1.90. In the Stimulating group the participants listen to the stimulating music and took the test and the percentage of cognition is 45.97±1.63. In the depression group the participants took the test with the depressing music and the percentage of cognition is 41.54±1.68.It is seen from these test that participants who listen to the stimulating song have highest attention cognitive efficiency than the normal group which is the second efficient group than the control group being the third efficient group and the last and the poor efficient group is the depression group. People who don’t listen to music have better attention cognitive efficiency than the people who listens to the depressing music. So these testing methods will be effective for various neuropsychopharmacological assessments in human.