Does music aid performance on cognitive tasks?

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Does music aid performance on cognitive
tasks? The Mozart Effect Rauscher, Shaw Ky
(1993)
Listen to 10 minutes of Mozart
Listen to 10 minutes of repetitive music
10 minutes of Silence
Test on spatial abilities e.g., jig-saw
puzzles mental rotation Result Youre better
after the Mozart
Interpretation Brain regions for musical
processing are shared with regions for spatial
processing. (Music warms up these regions.)