Playing along with the Mozart effect. If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener.

Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural experience. At the other end of life, musical memories can be imprinted on the ...

It seems that I am guilty of a crime. I played Mozart for my son when he was a baby and a toddler. Also Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini and others. According to an article published in The New Yorker on ...

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A new systemic review has examined a dozen studies into the effect of Mozart’s music on epilepsy, finding the classical piano music may reduce the frequency of seizures. The review rekindles an idea ...

In a now well-known 1993 paper in Nature called "Music and spatial task performance", Frances H. Rauscher and her colleagues report that participants who were exposed to the first movement "allegro ...

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(Vienna, Saturday, 19 June 2021) Music by Mozart has been shown to have an anti-epileptic effect on the brain and may be a possible treatment to prevent epileptic seizures, according to new research ...

New parents might want to put a pint-sized tambourine in their babies' hands and start them shaking. A new study has shown that musical playtime improves the way 9-month-olds' brains process both ...