Music Makes You Smarter!

Over the past few years, new scientific evidence has surfaced that shows a dynamic link between the study of music and the development of intelligence. There is even evidence that simply listening to certain kinds of music can boost test scores in students. This listening corrolation, sometimes reffered to as the Mozart Effect, was the most talked about research item discovered by neuroscientist Dr. Gordon Shaw, psychologist Dr. Frances Rauscher and their research team from the University of California at Irvine. But the really significant findings were the discovery of an unmistakable causal link between music and spatial intelligence. Spatial intelligence is the ability to perceive the visual world accurately, to form mental images of physical objects, and to recognize variations of objects . This research has considerable potential to reverse the view of music and music education as more or less irrelevant to intellectual development.

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