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Beastiepoo, Speaking of IQs
Smart Music
The Mozart Effect
"The power of Mozart's music has come to public attention largely through innovative research at the University of California in the early 1990s. At the Center for the Neorobiology of Learning and Memory in Irvine, a research team began to look at some of the effects of Mozart on college students and children. Frances H. Rauscher, Ph.D., and her colleagues conducted a study in which thirty-six undergraduates from the psychology department scored eight to nine points higher on the spatial IQ test (part of the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale) after listening to Mozart's, "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major". Although the effect only lasted ten to fifteen minutes, Rauscher's team concluded that the relationship between music and spatial reasoning was so strong that simply listening to the music can make a difference.
Mozart's music "may 'warm up' the brain," suggested Gordon Shaw, a theoretical physicist and one of the researchers, after the results were announced. "We suspect that complex music facilitates certain complex neuronal patterns involved in high brain activities like math and chess. By contrast, simple and repetitive music could have the opposite effect.
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