Two researchers have provide preliminary evidence that listening to Mozart can help us cope with cognitive dissonance—that intense feeling of discomfort that arises when we realize two of our core beliefs are at odds.
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It's believed that listening to Mozart and other classical music recordings will make the listener smarter, but this is a misconception as there's nothing unique about Mozart's ability to increase your mental abilities. 
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Scientists around the world have claimed that Mozart's music makes people more intelligent and improves health.
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October 7, 2013 9:06 PM
Ryal Newfeldt: Music is the perfect way to improve your mood, and clear your thoughts as you focus on sounds that stimulate your mind and soul. Therefore it is not surprising that Mozart's music has been scientifically proven to improve health in some instances
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The real debate in the arts is, are there criteria for art that could be persuasive in a democratic society to induce a society to support it? Is there some objective way of saying 'Well, a Beethoven symphony, a Wagner opera, a Debussy nocturne - those are superior to something else - that certain buildings, certain painters, certain sculptures are understood as critically superior to things that are of the same type, but not as good? Is there a hierarchy of goodness? Is there some true value to our judgments about art? Is it reasonable to say 'That just isn’t art' or 'that's bad art?'"
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Neil Harbisson can only see shades of grey. So his prosthetic eyepiece, which he calls an “eyeborg”, interprets the colours for him and translates them into sound. Harbisson’s art sounds like a kind of inverse synaesthesia. But where synaesthetes experience numbers or letters as colours or even “taste” words, for example, Harbisson’s art is down to a precise transposition of colour into sound frequencies. As a result, he is able to create facial portraits purely out of sound, and he can tell you that the colour of Mozart’s music is mostly yellow. Liz Else caught up with him at the TEDGlobal conference.
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Many parents believe playing Mozart will make their child smarter - but the science suggests teaching kids to play music themselves is more effective.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Steve Engels clicks on a file on his desktop and a classical piano piece flows out of his computer’s speakers. He lets it play for a minute or so, and then clicks on a different file.
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