In a now well-known 1993 paper in Nature called "Music and spatial task performance", Frances H. Rauscher and her colleagues report that participants who were exposed to the first movement "allegro ...

Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart's Sonata ...

In 1993, three dozen college students filed into a lab in Irvine, Calif., to take part in an unusual experiment. The lead researcher, Frances Rauscher, a red-haired woman in her late 30s and a former ...

A new comprehensive analysis on the effect of Mozart's music on epilepsy has confirmed that listening to his piano music can reduce the frequency of epilepsy attacks. The results of this comprehensive ...

Chandler Branch, at his blog, explains: “A new report now suggests that the Mozart effect may be a fraud. For you hip urban professionals: No, playing Mozart for your designer baby may not improve his ...

Music by Mozart has been shown to have an antiepileptic effect on the brain and could potentially represent a treatment to prevent epileptic seizures, according to researchers headed by a team at the ...

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