Music Advocacy Facts

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College students who listened to the first ten minutes of the Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos in D major saw a short-term increase of 62% in correct answers to spatial-temporal test items (essential to math reasoning). Students in the control group who listened to silence had a mere 14% increase in correct answers.

From: "Music and spatial task performance," Nature 1993; 365:611.

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