Music Lessons Enhance IQ
- E. Schellenberg
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 1 August 2004
The idea that music makes you smarter has received considerable attention from scholars and the media, and the first to test this hypothesis directly with random assignment of a large sample of children to two different types of music lessons or to control groups that received drama lessons or no lessons is tested.
Long-Term Positive Associations between Music Lessons and IQ.
- E. Schellenberg
- Psychology
- 1 May 2006
In Study 1 (N 147), duration of music lessons was correlated positively with IQ and with academic ability among 6- to 11-year-olds, even when potential confounding variables (i.e., family income,…
Effects of Musical Tempo and Mode on Arousal, Mood, and Spatial Abilities
- Gabriela Husain, W. Thompson, E. Schellenberg
- Psychology
- 1 December 2002
We examined effects of tempo and mode on spatial ability, arousal, and mood. A Mozart sonata was performed by a skilled pianist and recorded as a MIDI file. The file was edited to produce four…
Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function
- Sylvain Moreno, E. Bialystok, R. Barac, E. Schellenberg, N. Cepeda, T. Chau
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 3 October 2011
The effects of two interactive computerized training programs developed for preschool children: one for music and one for visual art demonstrate that transfer of a high-level cognitive skill is possible in early childhood.
Examining the association between music lessons and intelligence.
- E. Schellenberg
- PsychologyBritish Journal of Psychology
- 1 August 2011
The findings suggest that children with higher IQs are more likely than their lower-IQ counterparts to take music lessons, and to perform well on a variety of tests of cognitive ability except for those measuring executive function.
Simplifying the Implication-Realization Model of Melodic Expectancy
- E. Schellenberg
- Psychology
- 1 April 1997
Results from previous investigations indicate that the implication-realization (I-R) model (Narmour, 1990) of expectancy in melody may be overspecified and more complex than necessary. Indeed,…
Music and Cognitive Abilities
- E. Schellenberg
- Psychology
- 1 December 2005
Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning would be notable only if…
Arousal, Mood, and The Mozart Effect
- W. Thompson, E. Schellenberg, Gabriela Husain
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 1 May 2001
Findings provide compelling evidence that the Mozart effect is an artifact of arousal and mood.
Good Pitch Memory Is Widespread
- E. Schellenberg, S. Trehub
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 1 May 2003
It is shown that good pitch memory is widespread among adults with no musical training, and that ordinary listeners retain fine-grained information about pitch level over extended periods.
The Mozart Effect: An Artifact of Preference
- K. M. Nantais, E. Schellenberg
- Psychology, Art
- 1 July 1999
The “Mozart effect” reported by Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993, 1995) indicates that spatial-temporal abilities are enhanced after listening to music composed by Mozart. We replicated and extended the…
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