The Mozart effect hypothesizes that listening to Mozart's music may improve short-term spatial-temporal reasoning abilities. Early research at the University of California found students who listened to Mozart's sonata before a spatial reasoning exam performed better than students in silent or other music control groups. However, the effect is small and temporary, and does not necessarily mean classical music makes people smarter overall. Rather, it seems to produce a modest boost to specific spatial skills.

1. The Mozart effect.

2. HypothesisListening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of mental tasks known as "spatial-temporal reasoning“.“Listening to Mozart makes you smarter"

3. Whatisthespatial-temporal reasoning”The ability to visualize spatial patterns and mentally manipulate them over a time-ordered sequence of spatial transformations.

4. Researches Alpine Experiments.Control GroupExperimental Group

5. ResearchesUniversity of CaliforniaStudents made a Spatial Reasoning exam in three groups in 10 minutes.The results of the group listening to Mozart Sonata was much higher than the other two groups.

6. LimitationsThere is not scientist explanations about this “Effect”.The results are not the same in children or adults.Actually is not a fact that classical music make you smarter but is a fact that produce an improvement in the spatial-reasoning.

7. Other usesSonata for Two Pianos in D major K.448helps epileptic people.A German sewage treatment plant plays Mozart music to break down the waste faster.Increase brain activity and avoid the neurological aging.