This awareness, in turn, focused his concentration. The validity of Einstein s personal observation was proven in a recent experiment at the University of California at Irvine. There, students listened to Mozart for 10 minutes and were then tested for recall. Science has found that music is the only external stimulus which automatically synchronizes the two hemispheres of the brain. The March 1991 issue of The Brain Mind Bulletin highlighted research that suggests it is the brain s ability to switch rapidly between the two hemispheres that may hallmark higher intelligence.
Music also stimulates the brain s prefrontal lobes that coordinate thinking patterns.
This stimulation, in turn, energizes the emotional centers of the brain. When all of these brain functions are stimulated and synchronized, information is rapidly processed and readily retained. Because you are activating more of your brain more effectively, you work smarter , not harder . I d never be able to remember a manual of 190 pages. Although I wasn t confident, I decided to give it a shot.