Because of their rapid reproduction rate and small size, mice make especially good laboratory animals. Laboratory mice have played an integral part in our medical and technological advancements over the years, ranging from testing antibiotics to reaction times in a maze. According to the basic assumption in behavioral psychology, animals may be studied and tested, and the results generalized to predict the behavior of humans. Maze experimentation is ideally suited for our hypothesis because it provides a method to test hearing and memory of our mice. That is why accelerated learning techniques introduce music into the learning process.
Music can also strengthen or weaken individuals.
Classical music has been shown to have either a neutral or strengthening effect. Hard rock music has repeatedly been proven in experiments to have a detrimental effect. David Herrel, a 16 year old at Nansemond River High School, conducted an experiment that sharpened his theory that hard rock taints the brain. After weeks of putting them through the same maze at an original average time of 10 minutes, the control group shaved 5 minutes from the beginning time, the classical group knocked 8 minutes off, but the hard rock averaged 30 minute completion time, a considerable difference. The fact that 72 mice were tested makes his results more valid because of the larger sample size.