THE MOZART EFFECT.

HYPOTHESIS

Listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of mental tasks known as "spatial-temporal reasoning“.

“Listening to Mozart makes you smarter"

WHAT IS THE SPATIAL-TEMPORAL REASONING”

The ability to visualize spatial patterns and mentally manipulate them over a time-ordered sequence of spatial transformations.

RESEARCHES

Alpine Experiments.Control Group

Experimental Group

Music Lessons per week Math and foreing language Lessons per week

1 or 2 7 or 8

Music Lessons per week Math and foreing language Lessons per week

5 or 6 2 or 3

RESEARCHES

University of California Students made a Spatial Reasoning exam in

three groups in 10 minutes.

The results of the group listening to Mozart Sonata was much higher than the other two groups.

Group #1 Silence

Group #2 Relaxation music

Group #3 Mozart Sonata.

LIMITATIONS

There is not scientist explanations about this “Effect”.

The results are not the same in children or adults.

Actually is not a fact that classical music make you smarter but is a fact that produce an improvement in the spatial-reasoning.

OTHER USES

Sonata for Two Pianos in D major K.448 helps epileptic people.

A German sewage treatment plant plays Mozart music to break down the waste faster.

Increase brain activity and avoid the neurological aging.