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mozart effect

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables
mozart -ef-fect
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement in spatiotemporal reasoning or in mental performance generally.

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.

Inflected Forms

the Mozart effect (canonical)

Questions

What does mozart effect mean?
The supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement in spatiotemporal reasoning or in mental performance generally.
Where does mozart effect come from?
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.

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