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Mozart effect (part 2)
To test their assumptions Rauscher put a special experiment on rats, which is obviously not an emotional reaction to the music. A group of 30 rats was placed in a room where Mozart’s Sonata in C major sounded for more than two months for 12 hours in a row.
It turned out that after that the rats ran the maze on average 27 percent faster and with 37 percent fewer errors than the other 80 rats that developed among random noise or in silence. According to Rausher, this experiment confirms the neurological rather than emotional nature of the Mozart effect. Continue reading
Auditory therapy of A. Tomatis (part 4)
Why Mozart?
But why Mozart? Why not Bach, Beethoven, the Beatles? Mozart did not create the stunning effects that Bach’s mathematical genius was capable of. His music does not stir up waves of emotions like Beethoven’s works. She relaxes the body like the folk melodies and brings him to the movement under the influence of music “stars” of the rock. So what’s the matter then? Perhaps, in is, that Mozart remains and mysterious, and accessible. His intelligence, charm and simplicity make us wiser. Continue reading
