An Empirical Study On The Effects Of Sad Music On Different Reading Effects

Music plays an important role in human survival activities,the influence of music on learning is increasing,how to influence and the degree of influence have become the focus of its research.In the past studies,most of them were the effects of music on human cognitive function.From the theory of cognitive capacity,we can know that both positive and negative emotions can occupy the cognitive resources of the brain,leading to negative effects.The promotion theory believes that positive emotions can enhance the flexibility and innovation of the task.In terms of emotional research,music is the most direct and effective means of inducing human emotions,and research in recent years has gradually increased.Music-induced emotions are more direct and in-depth than others.As a kind of music,sad music is more complex in the internal physiological and psychological mechanism of inducing emotion,and its effect is more obvious.Its emotional arousal is mainly accomplished by emotional infection and recall.Previous studies have shown that there are still differences in the influence of sad music-induced emotions on text reading.The main research subjects are more concerned with English reading comprehension,and less empirical research on Chinese texts and music scores.Therefore,the purpose of this paper is to study whether the emotions induced by sad music can improve Chinese reading comprehension and music score reading,and what are the similarities and differences between Chinese reading and music score reading under the influence of emotions.On this basis,two2×2 mixed experiments were designed.The Chinese version of the Positive and Negative Emotion Scale(PANAS)was used to recruit 30 music majors from the Conservatory of Music.The differences between the two reading categories induced by music were explored,and the differences between men and women were analyzed.The study consists of two experiments.Before the formal experiment,a preliminary experiment was carried out.The preliminary experiment results show that the selected materials can well induce the sadness of the subjects.In experiment 1,the effects of listening to sad music-induced emotions on Chinese reading comprehension efficiency were investigated.In experiment 2,the effects of listening to sadmusic-induced emotions on music reading efficiency were investigated.Experiment 1: Select 30 professional subjects,15 men and 15 women,respectively,to do Chinese reading comprehension before and after inducing emotions,and answer the questions designed after reading.The reading topic is 8 argumentative papers in the national middle school exam.Do a good job of screening articles ahead of time to ensure that the difficulty coefficient is moderate and the article itself will not affect the mood.The reading time and accuracy of the questions were recorded separately.Under the same reading difficulty,the reading speed and accuracy of a group of emotions induced by sad music increased significantly,and there is no significant difference in the learning efficiency of reading comprehension between men and women,but there is significant difference in interaction.Experiment 2: The same 30 subjects did music reading before and after arousing emotions,and answered the questions designed after that.Cherney's Fluent Piano Etudes 849 is selected as the music score,which is moderately difficult to read,and the repertoire will not affect the mood.Under the same reading difficulty,the reading speed and accuracy of a group of emotionally evoked music scores were improved,but there was no significant difference between genders in the reading efficiency of music scores.