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The Mozart Effect: An Artifact of Preference
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The “Mozart effect” reported by Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993, 1995) indicates that spatial-temporal abilities are enhanced after listening to music composed by Mozart. We replicated and extended the effect in Experiment 1: Performance on a spatial-temporal task was better after participants listened to a piece composed by Mozart or by Schubert than after they sat in silence. In Experiment 2, the advantage for the music condition disappeared when the control condition consisted of a narrated story instead of silence. Rather, performance was a function of listeners' preference (music or story), with better performance following the preferred condition.
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- Authors
- Nantais, K. M., & Schellenberg, E. G.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1999-07
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 370-373
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2105745664
- Cited by
- 282
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 2.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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