In this ever changing world, people continue to listen to music. Music plays an important part in our lives and is very powerful in affecting anything from our mood, stress, motivation and even attention. This notion brings about the idea of how music can influences our performance in the workplace. In an article titled, The Effects of Music on the Mind, author of Kristian David Olsen shows that, "listening to music as background can help people when they're thinking, learning, or working" and goes on to explain a study conducted with different types of music and how it affected attention. Attention comes up as the first issue in the case about effect of external stimulus toward ability in complex task and performance. Reaction time is a commonly used method of studying attention; it is the period of delay between the subject being shown a stimulus and their response, the time taken is usually measurable in milliseconds. The studies have been undertaken to see the effect in reaction times cause by divided attention, music consumption or other tasks that require active information processing. This means that the more complex a simultaneous task is, the longer the reaction time of the subject will be. .
In the case of pilots requesting speaker systems to be installed in planes to avoid dozing off, the argument that this will adversely affect air safety has been raised. This experiment will address issue about the effect of music towards attention; also types of music are taken into account. .
Many previous experiments have been studied, but none of them addressed the conclusion of this specific problem. Therefore, this experiment has been designed to evaluate this particular problem. It manifestly investigates two types of brain processing. The primary task (fly simulator), complex interaction, and the secondary task (word list), short-term memory, are involved in the experiment; and tend to be sufficient in approaching the accurate result.
