Is the Mozart Effect For Real?

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Is the Mozart Effect For Real? Nantais and
Schellenberg (1999)
Exp 1 Exp 2
Mozart 12.8 Mozart 13.0
score on test
Silence 11.9 Interesting Story 12.9
significant difference no difference
Subjects who preferred Mozart Subjects
who preferred story
Mozart 14.6 11.6
Story 13.2 12.7

• Conclude Theres nothing special about Mozart
  or any
• music for enhancing spatial tasks.
• Doing anything interesting right before the test
  helps
• performance, compared to being bored.