The behavioral data showed that only the condition
involving Mozart’s music had a beneficial influence on the solution of the spatio-temporal rotation tasks. This
beneficial influence was on the physiological level accompanied
by less complex brain activity, a decreased level of
alertness and less semantic memory processes. With respect
to the questions addressed in the second experiment, the
results lend support to Rauscher et al.’s (1993) priming
explanation of the Mozart effect suggesting that the link
between listening to music and spatio-temporal reasoning
is subserved by similarities in neural activation. The consistency
between observed differences in behavioral measures
on the one hand and physiological on the other, support
our assumptions that the observed patterns of EEG activity
are the result of the influence of Mozart’s music on spatio-temporal
reasoning, and not just a consequence of
listening to music in general.