Enhanced Spatial Performance following 10 Minutes Exposure to Music: A Replication

Rideout, Bruce E.; Taylor, J. Edward

doi:10.2466/pms.1997.85.1.112

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“…The results here also add to the list of oonconfirmations of Rauscher, et al (1993Rauscher, et al ( , 1995. Rauscher and Shaw (1998) cite the work of Rideout and colleagues (Rideout, Dougherty, & Wernert, 1998;Rideout & Laubach, 1996;Rideout & Taylor, 1997) as producing the Mozart effect. Steele, et al (1997), however, has pointed out a procedural problem common to all the Rideout studies.…”

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Failure to Confirm the Rauscher and Shaw Description of Recovery of the Mozart Effect

1999

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Failure to Confirm the Rauscher and Shaw Description of Recovery of the Mozart EffectKenneth M. Steele, Joshua D. Brown, and Jaimily A. Stoecker ABSTRACTThe Mozart effect is an increase in spatial reasoning scores detected immediately after listening to the first movement of a Mozart piano sonata. Rauscher and Shaw (1998) suggested that failure to produce a Mozart effect could arise from carryover effects of a spatial reasoning pretest which may interfere with the effect of listening to Mozart. They cited an unpublished study in which a verbal distractor was inserted between the pretest and listening condition, and the manipulation produced the recovery of a Mozart effect. This experiment attempted to confirm the unpublished study. 206 college students were exposed to one of three sequences, pretest-Verbal distractor material-Mozart, pretest-Mozart-Verbal distractor material, and pretestVerbal distractor material. An immediate posttest indicated no significant difference on solution of paper folding and cutting items among the three groups. The results do not support Rauscher and Shaw (1998). Our negative results are consistent with prior failures in other laboratories to produce a Mozart effect.

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Failure to Confirm the Rauscher and Shaw Description of Recovery of the Mozart Effect

1999

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“…In this study, Rauscher et al demonstrated that when college students were exposed to 10 minutes of a piano sonata by Mozart, they scored significantly higher on spatial IQ than those student who were exposed to either a relaxation tape or to those not exposed to music. The Mozart effect has been replicated in a number of studies (Rauscher, Shaw, & Ky, 1995;Rideout & Taylor, 1997;Rideout, Doherty, & Wernert, 1998). However, a recent study failed to replicate the effect, reporting no benefit on spatial IQ performance of children following exposure to Mozart compared to performance following exposure to a repetitive popular dance music track (McKelvie & Low, 2002).…”

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Music Enhances Category Fluency In Healthy Older Adults And Alzheimer's Disease Patients

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Experimental Aging Research

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Exposure to some music, in particular classical music, has been reported to produce transient increases in cognitive performance. The authors investigated the effect of listening to an excerpt of Vivaldi's Four Seasons on category fluency in healthy older adult controls and Alzheimer's disease patients. In a counterbalanced repeated-measure design, participants completed two, 1-min category fluency tasks whilst listening to an excerpt of Vivaldi and two, 1-min category fluency tasks without music. The authors report a positive effect of music on category fluency, with performance in the music condition exceeding performance without music in both the healthy older adult control participants and the Alzheimer's disease patients. In keeping with previous reports, the authors conclude that music enhances attentional processes, and that this can be demonstrated in Alzheimer's disease.

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“…Controversy has emerged over the existence of the effect (3,8,16,18). In a series of studies, Rideout and colleagues (12,13,14) obtained results consistent with an effect. Rideout (11) criticized the suggestion by Steele and colleagues (15,17) that these results may be due to a procedure that confounded mood or arousal differences between listening conditions.…”

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“…Steele and colleagues (16,18) included silence as a neutral condition, measured subjects' mood, and obtained results that indicated both the Mozart and relaxation conditions produced significant arousal changes in the directions suggested by the literature. In contrast, Rideout's studies (12,13,14) have not employed a neural arousal condition nor measured mood.…”

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Arousal and Mood Factors in the 'Mozart Effect'

Steele

2000

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Some investigators of the "Mozart effect" have not controlled for the influence of differences in arousal or mood induced by treatment conditions. Studies by Rideout and colleagues reported differences in spatial reasoning after listening to a Mozart sonata compared against a relaxation instruction tape. The conditions may have affected subjects' arousal differentially, with the sonata increasing arousal and the relaxation instructions decreasing arousal, which could have affected spatial reasoning performance. Evidence is cited in support of this suggestion and indicates the importance of analyzing the influence of arousal differences in Mozart effect research.

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Enhanced Spatial Performance following 10 Minutes Exposure to Music: A Replication

Cited by 83 publications

References 7 publications

Failure to Confirm the Rauscher and Shaw Description of Recovery of the Mozart Effect

Failure to Confirm the Rauscher and Shaw Description of Recovery of the Mozart Effect

Music Enhances Category Fluency In Healthy Older Adults And Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Arousal and Mood Factors in the 'Mozart Effect'

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