Music for your Brain

Professor Gordon Shaw, a physicist ( now deceased) helped to show  how music increases  relationships between different areas of the brain.  His research included having a group of college students listen to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D major  which showed temporary increases in their I.Q.’s. This also led to the “craze” of the Mozart Effect.

As brain cells fire across the synapses between them, they bridge the gap and make the connection easier the next time.  Neuroscientists propose that as you listen to music, these connections form patterns that build themselves up to process information more efficiently, and so boost your cognitive powers.

References:
Tune Your Brain, Elizabeth Miles  ©1997

New York Times, May 3, 2005