1993, neuroscientists Gorson L.Shaw, Frances H.Rauscher and Katherine N.Ky of the University of California published a research paper saying that people who listen to K448 music perform better in spatial reasoning and memory tasks.
Thirty-six psychology students from the University of California were tested. After listening to K448 music 10 minutes, their IQ test scores generally improved by 8 to 9 points.
Extended data
The French doctor Louis Tomatis first put forward the term "Mozart effect". It should be noted that "Mozart effect" music refers not only to Mozart's own music, but also to general music, and most of these music have the same or similar musical structure as Mozart's music.
The discovery of Rothschild and Shaw attracted great attention of researchers and soon became a hot issue in music psychology. Some researchers question the "Mozart effect" and think that Mozart's music is fluent and euphoric, which can stimulate people's happy mood to the greatest extent, thus helping to solve complex problems.
In fact, cognition determines emotions, and emotions also react to cognition. To some extent, they also have the same physiological processing basis. Therefore, "Mozart effect" needs to be explained from two aspects: cognition and emotion.