source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:42:40 -0700 Subject: Re: music and the brain From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >So they decided to see how music might stimulate the >brain. They played a Mozart piano sonata to students before an IQ test, and >the average score went up 10 points or so. That one of the hardest problems in IQ testing of signing apes, like the lowland gorilla Ko-Ko, is that it's hard to explain to them that their task is to answer the questions as quickly and accurately as possible, so that they'll get as high as score as they're capable. Most of the time, they just take it as another fun little game, and use it as another opportunity to joke and play with the psychologist. It's not totally impossible that part of the reason why Mozart's music could have this effect, is that it puts subjects into a mood appropriate for IQ testing - calm and inquisitive in part. Stockhausen, or in a different way, Ted Nugent, might have a different effect. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:37 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA19325; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:37:15 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA19264 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id DAA06500; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:35:12 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:35:12 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu