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The Mozart Effect: Music Listening is Not Music Instruction

“The Mozart effect” originally referred to the phenomenon of a brief enhancement of spatial-temporal abilities in college students after listening to a Mozart piano sonata (K. 448). Over time, this term was conflated with an independent series of studies on the effects of music instruction. This occurrence has caused confusion that has been perpetuated in scholarly articles, such as the one by ...

Is anybody listening?

The book is an uneven collection of essays, opinion pieces, speeches and other writings published between 2002 when an estimated 2,000 Muslims were massacred in the western state of Gujarat and the aftermath of last November's terror attacks in Mumbai. Roy calls the collection “a detailed under-view” of the darker side of the world's largest democracy or what she describes as “the cunning, Brah...

Listening is behaving verbally.

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, it may be important to reconsider the role of the listener in the verbal episode. Although by Skinner's own admission, Verbal Behavior was primarily about the behavior of the speaker, his definition of verbal behavior as "behavior reinforced through the mediation of other persons" (1957, p. 2) focused on...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

The doctor-patient relationship II: not listening.