From 1990s, the name Mozart suddenly harnessed with "the power of intelligence boosting" from some studies and those who opened a new business and got hundreds of thousands of coins should really loved this great composer. But what should we learn more about this?

Music can help our brain focus? Yes, but...the research team of Stanford University School of Medicine wants us to pay attention to some more details. Researcher scanned test subjects' brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and found that music from short symphonies by some 18th century composers "lights up" areas of the brain involved with making predictions, paying attention and committing details to memory.

But don't switch on that stereo just yet – peak brain activity actually occurred between musical movements. Think of in a concert setting, different audiences listen to a piece of music with wandering attention, but at the transition point between movements, their attention is arrested. In other words, one gets the most brain activity just after, or between, intense musical movements.

Is this a strange note to students? Well, it does no harm to incorporate tunes into the study routines, but just remember : Study during the interludes.

 

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