Music Is The Universal Language Of Mankind 🎼
Everything looks different with some kind of melody...
The most highly publicized mental influence of music is the "Mozart effect." Struck by the observation that many
musicians have unusual mathematical ability, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, investigated how
listening to music affects cognitive function in general, and spatial-temporal reasoning in particular. In their first
study, they administered standard IQ test questions to three groups of college students, comparing those who had spent
10 minutes listening to a Mozart piano sonata with a group that had been listening to a relaxation tape and one that had
been waiting in silence. Mozart was the winner, consistently boosting test scores. Next, the investigators checked to
see if the effect was specific to classical music or if any form of music would enhance mental performance. They
compared Mozart's music with repetitive music by Philip Glass; again, Mozart seemed to help, improving spatial reasoning
as measured by complex paper cutting and folding tasks and short-term memory as measured by a 16-item test.
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