Research

Research Papers

Dualism and The Beholder's Eye: Inversional Symmetry in Chromatic Tonal Music
By Dmitri Tymoczko
Princeton University, April 20, 2007

The Geometry of Musical Chords
By Dmitri Tymoczko
Princeton University, July 9, 2005

Individual differences in brain activity during visuo-spatial processing assessed by slow cortical potentials and LORETA
By Claus Lamm, Florian Ph. S. Fischmeister, and Herbert Bauer
Cognitive Brain Research 25 900-912 www.sciencedirect.com, 2005

Effective Music Training For Autistic Children
By Sarah Watson, Lee Wong, Michael Yee, Mark Bodner and Gordon L. Shaw
Music Intelligence Neural Development Institute 2003

Innate Brain Language and Grammar: Implications for Human Language and Music
ByGordon Shaw, Mark Bodner and Jiri Patera
M.I.N.D. Institute August 2003

Short-Term Improvement on a Visual-Spatial Task After Music Listening in Alzheimer's Disease: Group Study
By Julene K. Johnson, Gordon L. Shaw, My Vuong, Sydni Vuong and Carl W. Cotman
Activities, Adaption & Aging, Vol.26 (3), 2002

Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children
By Sima H. Anvari, Laurel J. Trainor, Jennifer Woodside and Betty Ann Levy
Academic Press J. Experimental Child Psychology 83,111-130, 2002

The Independent Music Teacher : Practice and Preparation
By Marienne Uszler
Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation Arts Education Policy Review, 2002

FMRI study relevant to the Mozart effect: Brain areas involved in spatial-temporal reasoning
By Mark Bodner, L. Tugan Muftuler, Orhan Nalcioglu and Gordon Shaw
Neurological Research Vol. 23, October 2001

Child Development and The PITS: Simple Questions, Complex Answers, and Developmental Theory
By Frances Degen Horowitz
Child Development Volume 71, No. 1, January/February 2000

Revolution in Math Education Fueled by Music Training
By Gordon Shaw
Music Intelligence Neural Development Institute Report, July 2000

Music Training Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Pre-School Children: Education Implications
By Gordon Shaw
Dept. of Physics and Center for the Neurology of Learning and Memory, March 15 - 17, 1996

Reliable short-term memory in the trion model: toward a cortical language and grammer
ByMilind Sardesi, Christopher Figge, Mark Bodner, Meridith Crosby, JillHansen, Jorge A. Quillfeldt, Sudan Landau, Annette Ostling, Sydni Vuongand Gordon L. Shaw
Biological Cybernetics 84, pgs 173-182, 2001

Classroom Keyboard Instruction Improves Kindergarten Children's Spatial-Temporal Performance A Field Experiment
By Frances H. Rauscher and Mary Anne Zupan
Elsevier Science Inc. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 15, No. 2, 215-228, 2000

Keyboard Instruction Improves Kindergarten Children's Spatial Performance
By Frances H. Rauscher and Mary Anne Zupan
Phi Delta Kappa International No.30, 215 - 228, 2001

Enhanced Learning of Proportional Math Through Music Training and Spatial-Temporal Training
By Gordon Shaw and Mathew Peterson
March Neurological Research Vol. 21, 1999, 3/99

Enhancement of Spatial-temporal reasoning after a Mozart listening condition in Alzheimer's Disease
By Julene K. Johnson
Neurological Research Volume 20, 12/20/98

Symmetric temporal patterns in cortical spike trains during performance of a short-term memory task
By Mark Bodner, Yong-Di Zhou, Gordon L. Shaw and Joaquin M. Fuster
Neurological Research Vol.19, October 19, 1997

Music Training Causes Long-Term Enhancement of Preschool Children's Spatial-Temporal Reasoning
By Frances H. Rauscher, Gordon L. Shaw, Linda J. Levine, Eric L. Wright, Wendy R. Dennis, Robert L. Newcomb
Volume 19, February Neurological Research, 2/97

Ithaca Conference '96 Music As Intelligence A Sourcebook
By Verna Brummett
Copyright by Ithaca College, 1997

The Musical Hormone
By Norman M. Weinberger
Musica Research Notes: V IV, I 2, Fall 1997

Bridging The Gap Between Neuroscience and Education
By Bonnie Taher
The Education Commision of the States (ECS), 1996

Expertise In Music,Chess, Mathematics,…..Takent Or Training
By Oliver Vitouch
Vienna Brain Research Lab, 1996

Bridging The Gap Between Neuroscience and Education
By Bonnie Taher
Bridging The Gap Between Neuroscience and Education, 1/26/96

Listening to Mozart enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: towards a neurophysiological basis
By Frances H. Rauscher, Gordon L. Shaw, Katherine N. Ky
Neuroscience Letters 185 (1995) 44-47, December 9, 1994

Music and Spatial Task Performance: A Casual Relationship
By Frances Rauscher, Gordon L. Shaw, Linda J. Levine and Katherine N. Ky
Univesity of California, Irvine 8/13/94

Early adolescents' Proportional reasoning on rate problems
By Robert Karplus
Copyright 1993 Educational studies in mathematics

Toward A Neural Theory Of Higher Brain Function Using Music As A Window
By Gordon Shaw and Xiaodan Leng
Concepts In Neuroscience, Vol. 2, No. 2, 229-258, 10/29/91

The Report of the National Commision on Music Education
By Music Education Report
Excerpt from "Growing Up Complete: The Imperative for Music Education" March 1991

Brain Mechanisms of Vision
By Torstem Wiesel and David Hubel
Scientific American Vol. 241, No.3 , 9/79

Key Components Of The "Mozart Effect"
ByGordon Shaw and Rauscher
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1998, 86,835-841

A Cognitive Basis for the Faciliation of Spatial-Temporal Cognition Through Music Instruction
By Frances Rauscher
Dept. of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

An Extraordinary Memory: The Case of a Musical Prodigy
ByJoanne Ruthsatz, Michael Bell and Douglas Detterman
Case Western Reserve University 2003

"Perception and Attention: The Gateways to the Brain"
By John M.D. Ratey
Excerpt from his book, "A User's Guide to the Brain" 2002

KeysTo a Better Memory
By Ronald Kotulak
Page 141 from his book, "Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of how the Mind Works" 1997

Cortcal Activity During Spatial And Verbal Processing Studied With Slow Cortical Potential Topography
ByHerbert Bauer, Oliver Vitouch, Georg Gittler, Michael Leodolter andUlrich Leodolter
Institute of Psycology, University of Vienna1997

Music and The Hemisphere
By Music and the Brain

Innate Spatial-Temporal Reasoning and the Identification Of a Genius
By MatthewR. Peterson, Doreen Balzarini, Mark Bodner, Edward G. Jones, TiffanyPhillips, Debra Richardson and Gordon Shaw Neurological Research, Vol. 26, January 2004

Symmetry Math Video Game Used to Train Profound Spatial-Temporal Reasoning Abilities Equivalent to Dynamical Knot Theory
By Mark Bodner and Gordon L. Shaw
M.I.N.D. Insitute 2002

The Having of Wonderful Ideas & Other Essays on Teaching & Learning
By Eleanor Duckworth
Teachers College Press

Proportional Reasoning of Early Adolescents
By Robert Karplus
Copyright 1993 Acquisition of Mathematics Concepts and Processes

Persistent patterns of brain activity: An EEG coherence study of the positive effect of music on spatial-temporal…
By Johannes Sarnthein, Astrid von Stein, Peter Rappelsberger, Hellmuth Petsche, Frances Rauscher and Gordon Shaw
Neurological Research - April 1997, Volume 19

A Cognitive Basis for the Facilitation of Spatial-Temporal Cognition Through Music Instruction
ByFrances H. Rauscher
Ithaca Conference '96 Music asIntelligence: A Sourcebook (pp. 31-44); Ithaca College Press 1997

Piano, Rhythm, and singing Instruction Improve Different Aspects of Spatial - Temporal Reasoning in Head Start Children
By Frances H. Rauscher and Marcy LeMieux
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh April 2002

MusicSmart: Making the Most of your Melodic Mind
By Thomas Armstrong
Excerpt from "7 Kinds of Smart-Identifying and developing your many Intelligences" Published in 1999

Phonological awareness and musical aptitude
By Zephra F. Peynircioglu, Aydyn Y. Durgunoglu, Banu Oney-Kusefoglu
Journal of Research Vol.25 Issue 1 pp 68-80, 2002

Improved Maze Learning Through Early Music Exposure in Rats
By Frances Rausher, K. Desix Robinson and Jason J. Jens
Neurological Research, Volume 20 July 1998

Keyboard Instruction and Spatial Task Competence in Learning Disabled Students
ByJoseph Piro
Long Island University May2001

Dynamics of Innate Spatial-Temporal Learning Process: Data Driven Education Results Identify Universal Barriers to Learning
By Wenjie Hu, Mark Bodner, Edward G. Jones, Matthew R. Peterson,
Gordon L. Shaw
MIND Institute 2004

Mathematics and Music: Further Insights into Higher Brain Function
ByGordon Shaw and Maren Longhurst
Dept. of Physics and Center for theNeurobiology of Learning and Memory, Univ. of California, Irvine 2000