Analyzing the Linkage of Music and Attention using Uddin’s Numeral Finding Test among University Undergraduates: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study in Bangladesh

Abstract

The NF test is test where the attention cognition efficiency is checked by the listening to different genre of music. In this study, it was designed to determine attention of participants and how the songs affect their brain when they listen to songs of different categories. Participant’s age, residential status and year of study were taken into account to see whether it affects the attention cognition or not. We have used a validated europsychopharmacological testing methods namely Numeral Finding (NF) for the etermination of attention in healthy aged human participants. 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 result is71.61±1.981.In the normal group the participants took the test with the normal music and the result is 74.32±1.592. In the Stimulating group the participants listen to the stimulating music and took the test and the result is 75.54±1.691. In the depression group the participants took the test with the depressing music and the result is 70.77±1.75.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.