What Can Classical Music do for You?
Thanks this time goes to Deric Bownds’ Mindblog, where Dr. Bownds is aggregating research, as I am. Dr. Bownds blogged about a study by Marie Forgeard, Ellen Winner, Andrea Norton, and Gottfried Schlaug: Children who received at least three years Read More …
From my email, this press release from Peter Stevenson: [T]he Big Noise Sistema nucleo in Scotland is showing encouraging early results, both musically and the impact on the wider community. The children’s performance at the recent end of session concert Read More …
For the last for a while of the lighter side series of classical music research, it so happens that S. Watanabe and and M. Nemoto continued their work with Java Sparrows: The reinforcing property of music for Java sparrows was Read More …
And to continue our examination into the lighter side of classical music research, here’s a study by S. Watanabe and K. Sato: Seven adult Java sparrows were trained to discriminate music by Bach and that by Schoenberg. In the Bach Read More …
Continuing with my more light-hearted attempts to bring you some classical music research, and at the same time trying to prove to you that it’s not as difficult as you think, consider a study done by Debra Porter and Allen Read More …
With it being the holidays and all, I thought I’d bring you some research on a slightly lighter note. Ava Chase has done what I find to be one of the most amusing and still significant experiments of all time Read More …
Jeff McKissack gave me a video this past week, and I was so excited by what I found on it, that I had to interrupt my normal posting schedule to bring you a few images from the DVD Water: The Read More …
From a study by Christian Heim, B. Kichu Naif, Denise Mowbray, and Janelle Tavender: Baroque music has been shown to encourage the production of alpha brain waves, leading to a calm, more relaxed state of the mind. The ideals of Read More …
From a study by R. G. Thompson, C. J. A. Moulin, S. Hayre, and R. W. Jones: Exposure to some music, in particular classical music, has been reported to produce transient increases in cognitive performance. The authors investigated the effect Read More …
From a study by Claudius Conrad We recently completed a study on critically ill, intubated ICU patients to investigate whether a well-defined selection of Mozart music can alleviate stress in critically ill patients, and how this effect might be mediated Read More …
