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In this study, we investigated the existence of the temporal component of Mozart effect, analyzed the influence of arousal or mood changing to attentional blink task performance when listening to Mozart Sonata. The results of the experiment showed the performance of subjects in attentional blink task did not significantly improve when they listened to Mozart Sonata played in either normal or fast speed. It is indicated that the temporal component of Mozart effect is not general exist. We propose that Mozart Sonata might possibly induce listener’s arousal or mood shifting, but could not give significantly influence to temporal attention.
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Xie, C., Zhao, L., Miao, D., Wang, D., Wei, Z., Zhang, H. (2010). A Study of Mozart Effect on Arousal, Mood, and Attentional Blink. In: Yao, Y., Sun, R., Poggio, T., Liu, J., Zhong, N., Huang, J. (eds) Brain Informatics. BI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15314-3_21
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