Cognitive Performance After Listening to Music: A Review of the Mozart Effect

Music, Health, and Wellbeing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Glenn Schellenberg, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arousal; Cognition; Cognitive ability; Emotional state; Mood; Mozart; Music listening

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921683277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.003.0022     Document Type: Chapter

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