Keeping Mozart in mind
By: Gordon L. Shaw ; [S.T.A.R. Software concept and design by Matthew Peterson].
Contributors: Peterson, Matthew.
Publisher: Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Music therapy.; Music -- Physiological effect.; Higher Nervous Activity -- physiology.; Learning -- physiology.; Music.; Space Perception -- physiology.; Time Perception -- physiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-363) and index.
"Audio track: I. Allegro con spirito from Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K.448 by Wolgang Amadeus Mozart.  Performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu"--T.p. verso.
System requirements for accompanying computer disc: PowerPC Macintosh 180 MHz; System 7.5 or higher; Pentium 200 MHz; Windows 95, 98, NT.
Table of contents: title: Higher brain function : music, mathematics, chess. History, anecdotes, correlations, and interviews ; Spatial-temporal and language-analytic reasoning in learning math and science ; Music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning ; Implications : scientific, educational, clinical; title: Structured brain and symmetry. Symmetry as a common theme ; Introduction to the brain : basic brain features and brain imaging ; Mountcastle theory of mammalian cortex : internal neural language of higher brain function ; Trion model and symmetries ; Trion music : reasoning and creativity ; Trion model of higher brain function : prediction that music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning; title: Tests of predictions in human behavior. Highly accurate mental rehearsals : correlation with top performance in sports ; Listening to Mozart Sonata (K.448) enhances spatial-temporal reasoning : the "Mozart effect" ; Music training enhances spatial-temporal reasoning in preschool children ; Music training plus spatial-temporal training equals improved math; title: Tests from brain imaging and animal studies. EEG and fMRI studies of Mozart effect ; Symmetry in primate higher brain function ; Musical structure of the internal neural language of the brain : using music as the Rosetta stone to help decode this internal language ; Animal behavior while listening to music and doing higher brain functions; title: The future of music as a window into higher brain function. Child brain development and adult brain reorganization ; Education : music training plus spatial-temporal training improves math ; Clinical implications ; The spatial-temporal thinking machine ; Final thoughts.