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The Effects Of Background Music On The Executive Function Of Children With Adhd In The Classroom Setting: A Study Proposal, Jennifer Mittag

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The purpose of the proposed study is to determine how children diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperac­tivity Disorder (ADHD) and neurotypical children will perform on executive function tasks while listening and not listening to music in a classroom setting. Prior research suggests that the presence of background noise improves the executive function performance of children with ADHD during specific memory tasks. In this study, fifty children diagnosed with ADHD and fifty neurotyp­ical children from Bellingham, Washington will take the Working Memory Test Battery for Children (Picker­ing, 2006), either with or without classical music play­ing in the background. Scores will be calculated, and an …