In 1993, a study published in Nature found that college students who listened to a mere ten seconds of a Mozart sonata were endowed with augmented spatial reasoning skills. The news media ran wild ...

Even though the participants in Rauscher et al.'s study were college students, and they didn't administer a full battery of cognitive tests to properly assess general intelligence, their findings ...

New research has revealed a molecular basis for the “Mozart effect” – the observation that a brief stint of Mozart, but not other music, may improve learning and memory. Rats that heard a Mozart ...