Music and mental capacity

Uplifting music can boost mental capacity, research finds March 19, 2013 in Psychology & Psychiatry (Medical Xpress)—Uplifting concertos from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons can boost mental alertness, according to research from Northumbria University. Ads by Google Exercise Your Brain - Games You Didn't Know Existed to Fight Brain Decline and Aging. - www.lumosity.com The findings, which are published in this month's Experimental Psychology, show that the uplifting first movement, in particular, is capable of enhancing attention and memory. In the experiment a group of 14 young adults were given a mental concentration task to perform. They were asked to press the space bar on a keyboard when a green square appeared on screen and ignore different coloured circles and squares that appeared intermittently. The participants carried out this task both in silence and while listening to each of the four concertos while their brain activity was measured using EEG brain imaging/.../
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