Alison Winiarski - The Effect of Music Type, Gender, and Learner Type on Auditory Comprehension
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect that differing musical genres, gender, and learner type have on auditory comprehension. This was tested by having instrumental or popular music playing while the participants walked in a room and were read aloud a story. Participants were then administered an auditory comprehension questionnaire based on the story. It was found that the music genre (p-value = 0.4942) and gender (p-value = 0.4876) had no significant effect on reading comprehension, but the learning type of the individual did have a significant effect (p-value = 0.034). Our experiment demonstrated that while music type and gender played a non-significant role in auditory comprehension, individuals’ predisposed learning type may significantly effect on their ability to comprehend and interact with auditory information.