- Demorest,Steven M.; Steven J. Morrison. Music Educators Journal, Vol. 87, No. 2, Special Focus: Music and the Brain. (Sep. 2000), pp. 33-39+58.
This article explores some of the research studies that have proposed connections between musical involvement and general inteligence. Morrison and Demorest explored two series of studies in detail. The first series documents a short-term increase in performance on a spatial reasoning task after listening to Mozart, often referrred as "the Mozart Effect". The second series concluded that piano instruction caused preschoolers to improve on a single test or spatial reasoning ability. The research analyzed how long and when the most improvement would occur.
In my paper I will use these studies as my primary source to enforce my point that music does make you smarter, but it depends on how early you have music instruction. For my secondary source I will use questions I have asked students who are musicians and non musicians.
- Janata, P., & Tramo, M. J. (2006, May 9). Music and the Brain. (I. Flatow, Interviewer)
This dicsussion generalizes my topic by just the way music affects the brain. In the discussion, it is asked why certain songs bring back memories. It is a connection in the brain that is activated when it is stimulated. This makes the brain reconnect with memories. That is why therapeutic hypnotists use music to bring back memories if someone suffers from amnesia.
- Dahlager, Jon. Iowa State Daily News. Undefined section. Can Music Make You Smarter? (Sept. 1999), p.1.
This article mainly states that there is not one type of music that makes people smart. Dahlager states that music doesn't make people smart, but smart people listen to music. John Prater states that different music affects different minds. Dahlager then goes on into the notion that music does have an effect on the brain, referencing a 1993 experiment conducted at the Univeristy of California-Irvine. It found that the student's spatial-temporal abilities increased after listening to Mozart. I will use this article as research proving the fact that music does make you smarter, but not necessarily that only Mozart music makes you smarter.
- Lee, Carina. Music Really Does Help Your Brain. (june 2006), http://clearlyexplained.com/news/nature/2006/jun/1N2806_06.html
This article (as the website states) clearly explains how music helps your brain. I will be using this article as research for the basic idea of why music helps brain activity
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