"The Mozart Effect": A Small Part of the Big Picture - 0 views
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the Mozart Effect actually does not increase general intelligence and lasts only a few minutes, it does not provide a substitute for music study and practice.
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Studies have shown that music education and music-making have positive effects on many mental and behavioral factors that are themselves not part of music.
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mass media have played a major role in starting and maintaining public excitement about the Mozart Effect.
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This story began in 1993 when Frances Rauscher, Gordon Shaw and Katherine Ky published a brief paper in the prestigious journal Nature
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. The report by Rauscher, Shaw and Ky suggested that listening to music actually caused the brain to perform better in spatial reasoning, at least for a few minutes.
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the question is whether or not brief exposure to certain music can produce long term improvements in intelligence, either limited to spatial/temporal abilities or to more general intelligence, then the answer is no.
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Understanding and appreciating musical forms, genres, meanings and performances in historical, social and cultural context
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Reading musical notation, integrating sight, sound, touch and movements to perform and express self musically, solo, in cooperative group or both
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Mozart Effect requires only 10 minutes of exposure (not necessarily even attentive listening) to music.