Exploring the Mozart Effect Among High School Students

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 219-224

  Jones, Martin H ^a   Estell, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arousal; intelligence; Mozart effect; music

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049195031     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1931-3896.1.4.219     Document Type: Article

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