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Mozart effect en · PROPN

Etymology

Calque of French effet Mozart, a term coined by Alfred A. Tomatis (1920–2001), who used Mozart's music as the listening stimulus in his work attempting to cure a variety of disorders.

Meanings

  1. The supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement in spatiotemporal reasoning or in mental performance generally.

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Translations (7)

fr effet Mozart (supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance) · pt efeito Mozart (supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance) · nl mozarteffect (supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance) · ar تَأْثِير مُوتْسَارْت (supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance) · it effetto Mozart (supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance) · de Mozart-Effekt (supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance) · ja モーツァルト効果 (supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance)

wikipedia: Alfred A. Tomatis