PSYCHOLOGY: Can You Hear Color?

Publication Date

Spring 2025

College

College of Sciences & Mathematics

Department

Psychological Science, Department of

Student Level

Undergraduate

SPARK Category

Research

Faculty Advisor

Michael Oliver

SPARK Session

Sensation and Perception

Presentation Type

Talk/Oral

Summary

Attention and concentration are used daily in a college student’s life because their brain needs to be constantly working for school and outside factors. How students study can impact their academic performance and in turn their mental and physical health. The purpose of the study is designed to further understand the impact of auditory stimuli on an individual's level of concentration when performing cognitive tasks. An experimental design was conducted using college students to assess the impact of brown noise and violet noise on concentration. The two groups both completed the Stroop color-word test and their reaction times were calculated which were later then compared between the two. We hypothesized that brown noise would result in higher levels of concentration and violet noise would be more irritable and cause lower levels of concentration. Understanding these relationships could be helpful to the greater population for developing healthier interventions when trying to concentrate.

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