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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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How does listening to music while studying affect the human brain? Is it beneficial or harmful to the studying?
gpt
Music can often interfere with studying because of the scope of your working memory.  Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing. It is necessary for the information to be manipulated in the working memory to be stored in the longterm memory. Since music and studying do involve some of the same canals one can interfere with the other. However, if you do study while listening to music, recall of the information will be more successful when the same music is played! This is because context plays an important role in our memory:  greater congruence between situations of studying and recall will result in better recall of the information.