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Renee Rodriguez on 05 Mar 12This article, "Listen While You Work", discussed the benefits of listening to background music while working in a language arts class. The article listed the benefits of doing so which are improving retention and memory, an increase in attention levels, extending focused learning time and expanding thinking skills. The teacher gave few rules for listening to music while working but insisted that the students listen to the same CD from the beggining to the end of class and keep the volume down so peers arn't disrupted. Recently, it was discovered that the corpus callosum, located in the brain, increases in size when humans are exposed to music. Communication is then increased bewteen the two halves of the brain which increases learning efficency.