Prelude or requiem for the 'Mozart effect'?

Rauscher et al. reported that brief exposure to a Mozart piano sonata produces a temporary increase in spatial reasoning scores, amounting to the equivalent of 8-9 IQ points on the Stanford-Binet IQ scale. Early attempts to confirm this 'Mozart effect' were unsuccessful. Rauscher et al. su...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 400; no. 6747; p. 827
Main Authors Steele, Kenneth M, Bella, Simone Dalla, Peretz, Isabelle, Dunlop, Tracey, Dawe, Lloyd A, Humphrey, G. Keith, Shannon, Roberta A, Kirby, Johnny L, Olmstead, C. G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Nature Publishing Group 26.08.1999
Subjects
Cognition
Cutting
Equivalence
Folding
Humans
Intelligence Tests
Learning
Music
Pianos
Reasoning
Space Perception
Tasks
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Summary:Rauscher et al. reported that brief exposure to a Mozart piano sonata produces a temporary increase in spatial reasoning scores, amounting to the equivalent of 8-9 IQ points on the Stanford-Binet IQ scale. Early attempts to confirm this 'Mozart effect' were unsuccessful. Rauscher et al. subsequently restricted their account to an improvement in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by the Paper Folding and Cutting task. We use procedures modelled on the original report to show that there is little evidence for a direct effect of music exposure on reasoning ability.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/23611