[lbo-talk] the Mozart Effect

[joanna]

Well, in the last ten years, the only way I can get myself to sit down 
and concentrate on something that doesn't particularly interest me 
(computer programming/tech writing) is to play Mozart chamber music. 
Nothing else seems to work. It calms me down and helps me focus.

I make no general claims for that. For other people, it's reggae or hip 
hop or rock.  

Joanna

Tommy Kelly wrote:


>http://skepdic.com/mozart.html
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>"The idea for the Mozart effect originated in 1993 at the University of
>California, Irvine, with physicist  Gordon Shaw and Frances Rauscher, a
>former concert cellist and an expert on cognitive development. They studied
>the effects on a few dozen college students of listening to the first 10
>minutes of the Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K.448). They found a
>temporary enhancement of spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by the
>Stanford-Binet IQ test. No one else has been able to duplicate their
>results."
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