The Mozart effect involves the enhancement of spatial processing after listening to a Mozart piano sonata (Rauscher, Dhaw, and Ky, 1993). Efforts to replicate the Mozart effect have been mixed, possibly due to differences in dependent variable operationalization across studies or large individual differences in magnitude of effect. Chabria and…

The study investigated whether the lower audible frequencies (often perceived by the deaf) contained sufficient prosodic features for 32 normal hearing listeners to correctly identify the intended emotions of the speakers. (Author)

Deaf subjects required about 9 dB greater speech-to-noise ratio for 75 percent correct detection of words than did normal-hearing subjects, suggesting that maximum communication effectiveness may occur for hearing impaired children only at higher speech-to-noise ratios than that required by normal-hearing persons. (Author/KW)

The teaching of music should be approached in a manner that will impart to students moral and intellectual, i.e., cultural values. (CK)

Twenty-four adult patients who presented to a number of hospital services with complaints related to difficulty in hearing, understanding, remembering, or writing were examined for auditory perceptual disorders. Results support the desirability of examining auditory perceptual abilities in adults even though the tools available are designed…

To determine whether the accuracy of students' aural perception of rhythmic completeness and incompleteness is influenced by melodic context, 2,207 secondary school students were administered a 42-item data-collection instrument based on 14 rhythmic units. According to the results, accuracy is influenced by melodic context. (Author/SJL)