Results
In the first experiment the respondents of the MM, MS, and SM groups showed a better task-performance than did the respondents of the CG group. Individuals of the MM group displayed less complex EEG patterns and more α band synchronization than did respondents of the other three groups. In Experiment 2 individuals who listened to Mozart showed a better task performance than did the respondents of the CG and BM groups. They displayed less complex EEG patterns and more lower-1 α and γ band synchronization than did the respondents of the BM group.
Conclusions
Mozart’s music, by activating task-relevant brain areas, enhances the learning of spatio-temporal rotation tasks.
Significance
The results support Rauscher et al.’s (1993) priming explanation of the Mozart effect.
Keywords
Mozart effect; Learning; Memory; Problem-solving; Event-related desynchronization; Approximated entropy