This study examined effects of emotion induced by mode and tempo of the music on cognitive tasks. In Experiment 1, it examined effects of emotion induced by tempo of the music on word recognition task. In Experiment 1-1, Music was presented with words...
This study examined effects of emotion induced by mode and tempo of the music on cognitive tasks. In Experiment 1, it examined effects of emotion induced by tempo of the music on word recognition task. In Experiment 1-1, Music was presented with words simultaneously and subjects were instructed to remember the words. Even though emotion was manipulated, no effect of tempo was found on word recognition task. In Experiment 1-2, subjects were not instructed to remember the words. They were instructed to rate how often they use the each word presented during listening music. The results reported that subjects remembered the words presented during listening fast tempo music better than slow tempo music. The results could be explained that high arousing and positive emotion induced by fast tempo music improved the unintentional memory. In Experiment 2, it examined effects of emotion induced by mode of the music on word association task. Even though emotion was manipulated, no effect of mode was found on word association task. But interaction effect between gender and mode was found. In men, word association task performance under minor key was better than major key. In women, word association task performance under major key was better than minor key. The main effect for mode of music was only significant in women. Comparing experiment 1 and 2, we have found that musical properties could affect differentially according to the tasks.These experiments suggest that manipulation of musical properties could improve the unintentional memory and divergent thinking. Thus, modulation of the musical properties adaptively according to gender and cognitive task could facilitate users to do cognitive tasks more effectively.