Is listening to mozart the only way to enhance spatial reasoning?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 97, Issue 3 II, 2003, Pages 1163-1174

  Lints, Amanda ^a   Gadbois, Shannon ^a  

^a BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MUSIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MUSIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4143121168     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.97.3f.1163     Document Type: Article

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