The Mozart Effect - Don Campbell ISBN 0 7336 0557 5 - pg 15

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Frances H Rauscher Ph.D., and her colleagues conducted a study in which 36 undergraduates from the psychology department scored eight to nine points higher on the spatial IQ test (part of the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale) after listening to 10 minutes of Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major" (K.448). Althoug the effects lasted only 10 to fifteen minutes, Rauscher's team concluded that the relationship between music and spatial reasoning was so strong that simply listening to music can make a difference.

The fact that listening to music increases intelligence even for a short term is questioned. Since it appears that no one else has been able to replicate the effect.

This web page questions how the "Effect" has been promoted and perhaps exaggerated. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9903/linton.html

Alex