... et al (1997) concluded that the amplitude of the melody is important for the task to be performed quicker. Also lowering the amplitude gave slower response times to unexpected visual effects. Similarly, Wallace (1994) concluded that a simple repetitive melody was enough to increase people's memory. It has been argued, however, that memory is not controlled by music alone, and many other reasons may affect memory, such as a person's I.Q. The above two studies originated from Mayfield and Moss (1989), which found that slower tempo music made people more relaxed, thus providing a slower pace of work. It is from Mayfield that this investigated is based upon and taken a step further, to see the effects of having no music whilst participants perform the anagram task. A two-tailed Wilcoxon Test was used at a significance level of p=0.05. This was used due to the repeated measures design used. It is easy to compare ...

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