Hi List,

I found this article today in the Journal of the Royal Society of
Medicine (JRSM) on the so-called "Mozart effect" where listeners were
able to demonstrate an increase in temporal-spatial ability and IQ
following exposure to K448 from the standard repertoire.

http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/full/94/6/316-a

My question is, have any of you out there done musical experiments or
research involving similar types of phenomena.

The above paper cites the rate at which musical events are occurring
as key to producing this effect. Because of this, I immediately I
thought of the synthesis technique we have available in Csound scanned
synthesis contributed by Mathews et al. Since this type of synthesis
uses haptically varying modulation parameters to affect timbre, I'm
wondering if any investigators have observed this phenomenon with
synthesized sound stimuli in modern research or clinical contexts. If
not, what musical strategies might be useful in eliciting a similar
response pattern?


Thank you for your time and consideration,


David Akbari