... was processed at the time the "to be remembered material" was studied. Therefore, for the music to help the student during testing, it should be played during studying also. This brings up the issue of whether or not studying with music effects test performance. Many students feel that studying with music helps. Frances H. Rauscher discovered that performance on spatial reasoning tests improved after the participants listened to Mozart as opposed to a relaxation tape or silence. He first demonstrated the correlation between music and learning in an experiment in 1993. His experiments indicated that a 10-minute dose of Mozart could temporarily boost intelligence. Groups of students were given intelligence tests after listening to silence, relaxation tapes, or Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major. He found that after silence, the average IQ score was 110, and after the relaxation tape, scores rose a point. After listening to Mozart, ...

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