Mozart effect
English edit
Etymology edit
Calque of French effet Mozart, a term coined by Alfred A. Tomatis (1920–2001), who used Mozart's music as the listening stimulus in his work attempting to cure a variety of disorders.
Proper noun edit
- The supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement in spatiotemporal reasoning or in mental performance generally.
Translations edit
supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance
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