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Breaking the norms and listening to music while studying? Well, it's probably the best taboo-ed decision taken by the students!

Researchers have finally exposed that music has a direct link with pupil dilation. Listening to music which has a strong emotional association with us allows our pupils to dilate on the basis of passionate responses. Experts show that the amount of respective eye expansions prove how emotionally involved we are towards a song and how it actually touches us. Not only that, but researchers have established that listening to music while studying can aid students to retain more information.

Based at the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck, Bruno Gingras took the help of a laser pupil tracking device to study the outcomes of music and pupil dilation to continue research.

The results maintained that the original emotional content from the piano excerpts and an individual's direct connection with the music pieces were strong indicators in terms of pupil dilation. These two remain substantial signs that show how our pupils tend to move when we are exposed to our favorite songs.

Gingras in collaboration with Manuel Marin and Estela Puig- Waldmüller elected 80 piano extracts and asked 30 participants to rate them on the basis of their emotional aspects.

A second group was also exposed to numerous soundtracks and musical pieces, but remained unacquainted with the purpose of the study. Their pupil dilations were then thoroughly perused using the tracker and were exposed with a questionnaire which incorporated questions regarding their emotional attachment to music.

Daily Mail quotes that according to Manuel Marin, this study suggests that ‘a complex interplay between musical features and listeners' individual characteristics influences pupil responses to music, and presumably emotional responses as well’.  

In terms of the latter part of the study, the research further verified that music does actually help in accumulating information. The logic behind the theory is that music helps individual to stay active, vigilant and in short enhances their mental capability to study or even perform other daily tasks. Known as 'Mozart Effect', the linkage of music and conducting activities has been proved, which is considered not only beneficial, but also amplifies individual's attention span.