Overall, the data suggest that the increased performance
in spatio-temporal reasoning was a result of the activation
of specific task-relevant brain areas, as well as the inhibition
of task irrelevant brain areas provoked by listening
to Mozart’s sonata (K. 448). In music, spatial and temporal
sequence information must be unified thus activating specific
brain areas which might overlap with areas involved
in other cognitive processes (Janata and Grafton, 2003;
Patel, 2003). A still unsolved question is what specific characteristics
of Mozart’s sonata (K. 448) might have had provoked
the above described changes in brain activity. Thus,
a challenging question for further research would be: Are
there certain music pieces which are beneficial for specific
cognitive processes?