"Mozart effect" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: the Mozart effect [canonical]
Etymology: Calque of French effet Mozart, a term coined by Alfred A. Tomatis (1920–2001), who used Mozart's music as the listening stimulus in his work attempting to cure a variety of disorders. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|fr|effet Mozart}} Calque of French effet Mozart Head templates: {{en-prop|def=1}} the Mozart effect
  1. The supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement in spatiotemporal reasoning or in mental performance generally. Wikipedia link: Alfred A. Tomatis, Mozart effect Categories (topical): Music, Pseudoscience, Thinking Translations (supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance): تَأْثِير مُوتْسَارْت (taʔṯīr mūtsārt) [masculine] (Arabic), effet Mozart [masculine] (French), Mozart-Effekt [masculine] (German), effetto Mozart [masculine] (Italian), モーツァルト効果 (Mōtsaruto-kōka) (Japanese), efeito Mozart [masculine] (Portuguese)

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