The Greeks believed music was divinely created. Einstein wrote that listening to music, particularly Mozart s, made him acutely aware of the mathematical structure of music, and this awareness in turn focused his concentration. Science has shown music to be the only external stimulus which automatically synchronizes the two hemispheres of the brain.
Music also stimulates the brain s prefrontal lobes that coordinate thinking patterns.
This, in turn, energizes the emotional centers of the brain. When all these brain functions are stimulated and synchronized, information is rapidly processed and readily retained. The validity of Einstein s personal observation was proven in a recent experiment at the University of California at Irvine. There, a group of students listened to Mozart for 10 minutes and were tested for recall. Remembrance has been tested now for over two years.