Mozart Testing The Memory

It can be proven, through literary research and personal experiences, that music has a positive effect on learning and memory. It can be concluded that these positive effects have an impact on patients with Alzheimer’s, on the motor skills and auditory memory of mentally disabled children, on students attempting to remember subject manner that they are learning, and on the affectivity of advertisements. On a personal note, music has facilitated my ability to remember things, both positive and negative, a number of times. For example, in high school I memorized the days of the week in French by singing them along with a tune that was already familiar to me. I have also had multiple experiences in which I remember things that I do not want

The Mozart Effect Resource Centre website, music educator Don Campbell made the claim that “classical music has a powerful effect on the intellectual and creative development of children from the very youngest of ages.” (Campbell, n.d.). To critically evaluate this claim a number of sources have been analysed. Through this analysis it was found that the claim cannot be supported by reliable empirical research and that classical music only produces short-term cognitive enhancement. This effect can be achieved by listening to any type of music. The first main theme found in the literature was that listening to classical music such as Mozart produced only short term increased cognitive abilities and did not aid the intellectual development of

The music of Mozart has been long praised. His classical sonatas and concertos continue to be recognized as some of the greatest works of music of all time. Since Mozart’s death, many have argued over the relationship between listening to Mozart and intelligence, with many arguing that classical music makes you smarter. Although many myths surrounding the topics of Mozart and intelligence exist, in this paper, I will be addressing the myth in the context that solely listening to the music of Mozart will improve cognitive performance before academic functions such as tests.

Does classical music really help you study better? Many recent research studies show that music idoes in fact improve cognitive thinking. In 1993, researchers at the University of California at Irvine discovered the so-called Mozart Effect - that college students “who listened to ten minutes of Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D major K448 before taking an IQ test scored nine points higher” than when they had sat in silence or listened to relaxation tapes. Other studies have also indicated that it doesn’t matter the artist; people retain information better if they hear classical or baroque music while studying.

Drooling with an object to its mouth, a small child sits in a corner, as a symphony of Requiem in D minor plays in the background. The babysitter jollily states to the child’s mother “Listening to Mozart can make you smarter.” Many believers of this phenomenon of the “Mozart effect” has sparked controversial argument of whether its enhancing effects on the brain are true. A famous otolaryngologist and inventor, Alfred A. Tomatis, first coined the phrase the “Mozart effect” for its mysterious capability of physical healing and brain development. A research team in the University of California, Frances Raucher, Katherine Ky, and Gordon Shaw, experimented with the measurement of IQ levels after the variables were exposed to Mozart’s masterpieces.

This paper discusses Mozart's life, his compositions and his importance to the world and the world of music. It explains how Mozart's music is still some of the most popular classical music played today and his life is still studied because his music is so well known and liked.

Music, one of the many factors that enhance our lives, has been a widely ranged field. From Classical music to Hip Hop, there are listeners of all ages, each having their own preference of music. Through research, it has been discovered that memory can be affected by many different factors, including music. Music has been found to stimulate parts of the brain, alleviating stress and depression. Additional research also shows that music, especially Classical, enhances the storage and recall of memory. Therefore we decided to test the effect of music on memory to evaluate the changes and differences.

The idea behind the “Mozart Effect” is that when babies listen to classical masterpieces, specifically Mozart, their brainpower will be enhanced which ultimately increases their intelligence. There are a myriad number of people who have tested this hypothesis and truly believe that the waves and the sounds engenders cognitive skills in the domain of learning. However, the real question is that do scientists substantiate this claim? Is there solid evidence or is it all an obscure hypothesis?

Although I found merit in how music therapy decreases behavioral symptoms of AD and dementia, I was even more concerned how it effects on memory. I kept thinking about the different stories of the residents in the documentary Alive Inside. My previous research explained the response that Henry had in the documentary Alive Inside. In fact, his response surfaced in social media where he seemingly awakens from a cationic state after listening to jazz and his favorite music. After his therapy, he starts to sing, smile, and laugh; however, I was even more perplexed by the opening scene of the documentary where they interview a resident who cannot remember her life before she was a young woman. After listening to the song “When the Saints go marching

Peynircioglu of American University showed that among visual learners, music while studying increased the subjects ability to retain information better than it did in auditory learners or musicians. When tested to see whether meaningful melodies would be remembered better than non meaningful melodies, Musicians had a harder time remembering melodies that were determined to be meaningless than visual learners/nonmusicians but had a higher rate of

I found the podcast for music’s effect on dementia patients very interesting and phenomenon. Aside from what lessens dementia, dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability. In the podcast, Dan Cohen came up with a mnemonic device to allow dementia patients to remember things or enjoy things that they had forgotten due to their study findings. Mnemonic devices are memory devices that help learners recall larger pieces of information, the device in this case was the music because it helped the patients to regain lost memories. The man named Henry was astounding how he went from being slumped to singing something he heard or listened to a long time. Apparently they came to realize that by dementia patients listening to music they

What one can conclude from the studies is that music does seem to show some intrinsic benefit for memory, and has memory triggering effects for patients with Alzheimer’s. One reason cited for this could be that memory is held in primarily the hippocampus and medial temporal areas—the same areas which are the first to degenerate with the onset of Alzheimer’s— and music is held in multiple cortical and subcortical areas including the basal ganglia, hypothalamus and cerebellum which are affected slower in Alzheimer’s patients. However, the deviation with healthy adults raises questions. Though the researchers are unclear about this divergence, the results from this study were some of the most promising with music therapy and Alzheimer’s. These results lead us to questions whether music allows people to code information using different parts of the brain, or if it merely stimulates and helps people pay more attention. These questions remain unanswered but are central to understanding Alzheimer’s and how music can be helped to retrieve

From the Top is a great organization which many individuals strongly support. This show takes place every Saturday. There is a host and young performers, mostly teens, which perform on camera and on the radio station. The host or even a famous musician introduces the performer. The performers perform, and then, (my favorite part), they comment on it afterwards. This commentary includes games, interviews with the host, and many more fun ways to engage with the young performers. Through this commentary you really learn a lot about the performers in a very fun way. The music performed by these teenagers is of a very high-level. I would expect these pieces to be performed by professionals that have been in the music industry for years upon years and yet these young children and young adults are performing these pieces with outstanding talent, surprisingly, like a professional might perform them. Through the performers’ facial expressions and

The Mozart Effect is a phenomenon that occurs when individuals listen to the two piano sonata. The stated results are individuals that are able to remember information easier. There are two studies that were conducted in associated with the Mozart Effect. The first study was dedicated to spatial skill performance and its neural pathway relation to music. The other study was dedicated to challenging the first study due to the argument that any type of music that is appreciated can cause the same memory effect. The second study was based on an experiment with unborn mice that heard Mozart’s piano sonata K448. The other part of the study was related to the effects of Mozart’s piano sonata K448 on patients who were suffering from epilepsy. The overall conclusion is that Mozart’s piano sonata K448 has positive effects on both animals and humans.

I am sure you have those songs that when you hear them, it reminds you of some memory linked to its melody. This happens to everyone,including your children.This illustrates that music is easily absorbed by one’s brain (Lucas par. 1).Music increases one’s capability in memorizing information. This skill helps to write tests and exams confidently. Favourite songs stimulate our memory in many ways. “As claimed in a study from McMaster University in Canada, students who