source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:01:46 -0700 Subject: music and the brain From: James Kukula I just caught the tail end of a report on US National Public Radio this morning. Some neurophysiology types at UC Irvine found some music-like signals in the brain. 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. Plus some studies on kindergarteners learning to play music. PS 144 in Harlem in New York picked up on it and has started some kind of pilot project. Sorry I don't have more specifics. Jim Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:05 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02500; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:05:55 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02498 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA16757; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:04:16 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:04:16 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu