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@article{citeulike:3046736, abstract = {In the present study, we examined whether the 'Mozart effect' would influence participants' temporal attention using a visual attentional blink (AB) task that provides a reliable measure of the temporal dynamics of visual attention. The 'Mozart effect' refers to the specific claim that listening to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K.448 can improve the performance in spatio-temporal tasks. Participants had to try and identify two target digits (in their correct order of presentation) presented amongst a stream of distractor letters in three different conditions (presented in separate blocks of trials): while listening to the Mozart sonata played normally, while listening to the same Mozart sonata played in reverse, and while in silence. The results showed that the participants were able to detect the second target (T2) significantly more accurately (given the correct detection of the first target, T1) in the AB stream when the Mozart sonata was played normally than in either of the other two conditions. Possible explanations for the differential effects of Mozart's music being played normally and in reverse and potential confounds in previous studies reporting a facilitatory 'Mozart effect' are discussed. Our results therefore provide the first empirical demonstration supporting the existence of a purely temporal component to the 'Mozart effect' using a non-spatial visual AB task.}, address = {Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. cristy.ho@psy.ox.ac.uk}, author = {Ho, C. and Mason, O. and Spence, C.}, citeulike-article-id = {3046736}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.006}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16942739}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16942739}, doi = {10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.006}, issn = {0001-6918}, journal = {Acta psychologica}, keywords = {attentional, blink, dimension, effect, evidence, from, into, investigation, mozart, of, task, temporal, the}, month = {May}, number = {1}, pages = {117--128}, posted-at = {2008-07-29 17:54:31}, priority = {2}, title = {An investigation into the temporal dimension of the Mozart effect: evidence from the attentional blink task.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.006}, volume = {125}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3046736 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3046736 N2 - In the present study, we examined whether the 'Mozart effect' would influence participants' temporal attention using a visual attentional blink (AB) task that provides a reliable measure of the temporal dynamics of visual attention. The 'Mozart effect' refers to the specific claim that listening to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K.448 can improve the performance in spatio-temporal tasks. Participants had to try and identify two target digits (in their correct order of presentation) presented amongst a stream of distractor letters in three different conditions (presented in separate blocks of trials): while listening to the Mozart sonata played normally, while listening to the same Mozart sonata played in reverse, and while in silence. The results showed that the participants were able to detect the second target (T2) significantly more accurately (given the correct detection of the first target, T1) in the AB stream when the Mozart sonata was played normally than in either of the other two conditions. Possible explanations for the differential effects of Mozart's music being played normally and in reverse and potential confounds in previous studies reporting a facilitatory 'Mozart effect' are discussed. Our results therefore provide the first empirical demonstration supporting the existence of a purely temporal component to the 'Mozart effect' using a non-spatial visual AB task. IS - 1 JF - Acta psychologica SN - 0001-6918 AD - Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. cristy.ho@psy.ox.ac.uk EP - 128 TI - An investigation into the temporal dimension of the Mozart effect: evidence from the attentional blink task. VL - 125 SP - 117 KW - attentional KW - blink KW - dimension KW - effect KW - evidence KW - from KW - into KW - investigation KW - mozart KW - of KW - task KW - temporal KW - the AU - Ho, C AU - Mason, O AU - Spence, C PY - 2007/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.006 ER -