Cortical responses to Mozart's sonata enhance spatial-reasoning ability

Neurological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 885-888

  Suda, Miyuki ^a   Morimoto, Kanehisa ^a   Obata, Akiko ^b   Koizumi, Hideaki ^b   Maki, Atsushi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive enhancement; Mozart effect; Optical topography; Spatial temporal reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEETHOVEN MUSIC; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MOZART SONATA; MUSIC; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MUSIC; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 57349130537     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313208X319143     Document Type: Article

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