EJ658281 SO535405
Title: Listening to Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal
Reasoning: Evidence for the "Mozart Effect."Author(s): Hetland, Lois
Source: Journal of Aesthetic Education, v34 n3-4 p105-48 Fall-Win 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Notes: Journal of Aesthetic Education is a refereed journal. Theme issue: The Arts and Academic Achievement: What the Evidence Shows.
ISSN: 0021-8510
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR2003
Presents the results from two meta-analyses of the Mozart Effect studies. Explains
that in Christopher Chabris' meta-analyses, 16 studies with subjects (n=714) and
12 studies with subjects (n = 522) were analyzed; while in the author's meta-analysis
36 studies with subjects (n=2,465) and 31 studies with subjects (n=2,089) were
analyzed. (CMK)
Descriptors: *Brain; Classical Music; Educational
Benefits; *Educational Research; Higher Education; *Listening; *Meta Analysis;
*Music; Music Education; *Spatial Ability
Identifiers: *Mozart Effect
