THE INFLUENCE OF BACKGROUND MUSIC ON WORKING MEMORY AND THE LEARNING PROCESS

The purpose of the research is to study the influence of music on working memory and the learning process. To achieve this goal, we studied the scientific literature on this topic; examined the importance of working memory and studied the effect of music on it; as well as analyzed how music affects the learning process and memorizing new information. We concluded that while music helps to relieve stress and lower the level of anxiety, it can both increase the amount of memorized information, and lower it, depending on the individual qualities of a person. Research object of this article is working memory and research subject is the influence of music on memorizing information and student's attention span.