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Baziron
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« on: 16:30:57, 19-07-2007 »
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Improved maze learning through early music exposure in rats.

Rauscher FH, Robinson KD, Jens JJ.

Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 54901, USA.

Rats were exposed in utero plus 60 days post-partum to either complex music (Mozart Sonata (k. 448)), minimalist music (a Philip Glass composition), white noise or silence, and were then tested for five days, three trials per day, in a multiple T-maze. By Day 3, the rats exposed to the Mozart work completed the maze more rapidly and with fewer errors than the rats assigned to the other groups. The difference increased in magnitude through Day 5. This suggests that repeated exposure to complex music induces improved spatial-temporal learning in rats, resembling results found in humans. Taken together with studies of enrichment-induced neural plasticity, these results suggest a similar neurophysiological mechanism for the effects of music on spatial learning in rats and humans.

For the full research findings go to HERE

I wonder whether this informs us that the dissimilarities between a) Mozart, and b) Glass, White Noise and Silence are as significant as the similarities between rats and humans.

Any thoughts?

Baz
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« Reply #1 on: 16:39:05, 19-07-2007 »
In another experiment the composer Philip Glass has been exposed to (i) Mozart K448  (ii) white noise (iii) silence (iv) some rats.

The results have not yet been analysed.  Philip Glass is 60.
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« Reply #2 on: 16:45:29, 19-07-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 16:39:05, 19-07-2007
In another experiment the composer Philip Glass has been exposed to (i) Mozart K448  (ii) white noise (iii) silence (iv) some rats.

The results have not yet been analysed.  Philip Glass is 60.

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« Reply #3 on: 18:14:55, 19-07-2007 »
So it took 10 years off him then ?
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Baziron
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« Reply #4 on: 18:58:05, 19-07-2007 »
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So it took 10 years off him then ?

10 years only? I should have thought the following would take about 100 years off anybody!...

PLAY THIS!

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« Reply #5 on: 16:34:58, 20-07-2007 »
>> So it took 10 years off him then ? <<

All the years after 60 were just gratuitous repeats Wink
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« Reply #6 on: 16:59:55, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: Baziron on 16:30:57, 19-07-2007
complex music (Mozart Sonata (k. 448)
Complex. The Mozart two-piano sonata.

Goodness me. Wink

The problem I have so far had with this sort of study is that the research tends to have a starting point which is so basic in musical terms that what it tells us about the perception of music is really not much further advanced than what it might tell us about the perception of random noise. Or at most telling us that people in general prefer Mozart to Webern, which I think even I had already spotted. (But giving that as a conclusion of a study which had actually measured a heightened state of concentration in the subjects listening to the Webern, a jump of reasoning which tells us a lot about the researcher's ability to find what they were looking for and not a lot about anything else. Did I dream that one, or can someone find it while I collect my washing?)
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« Reply #7 on: 17:32:48, 20-07-2007 »
>> Or at most telling us that people in general prefer Mozart to Webern <<

What I want to know, however, is whether if the research proved that Webern enhanced learning capacity and rational thought, would we suddenly see a boom in sales of Das Augenlicht or Variations For Orchestra?   Or would Mozart carry on outselling Webern anyhow?  Wink

There is such a thing as setting up the experiment to get the results you hoped to find (as Schencker well realised).

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Is that the Grew spelling? Wink
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