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Name:  lauren urban
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Question:
I am a musician, and I have herd that listning to Mozart will make you "smarter"....is this true and is there any factual information on this?

Thanks!

Replies:
Well... if you understand Mozart's music then that might make you a smarter musician...

--- Jade

This item appeared in UC Focus, December 1993/January 1994-

Listening to 10 minutes of Mozart could be good for the IQ, at least temporarily, researchers at UC Irvine say. Scientists found that students who listened to Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major" improved their test scores on intelligence tests taken immediately afterward. ... Researchers picked Mozart because of the complex, non-repetitive character of the music. "Listening to such music may stimulate neural pathways important to cognition," said research fellow Frances H. Rauscher. Test scores generally improved, regardless of the students' taste in music.

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