Music, Relaxation, or Silence: What Facilitates Optimal Spatial-Reasoning?
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A controversy exists over the “Mozart effect,” which is the influence of Mozart’s classical music on spatial-reasoning abilities. There are contradicting studies of whether listening to Mozart’s music improves performance on spatial-reasoning tasks. This study tested the effect of classical music on performance and investigated the role of arousal and relaxation. Participants were randomly assigned to Mozart music, techno music, vocal relaxation, or silence, where they then completed a matrix reasoning task. The results revealed no significant differences between the conditions and no significant correlation between the number of answers wrong for those listening to music and whether that participant was a musician or a non-musician. The lack of significant results for this study provides support for those researchers who were unable to observe a Mozart effect. However, an interaction of musician by group was found, thus, providing an interesting effect of musical training on how one performs in a particular listening condition.
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