This article reviews evidence for multiple intelligences theory, the Mozart effect theory, and emotional intelligence theory and argues that despite their wide currency in education these theories lack adequate empirical support and should not be the basis for educational practice. Each theory is compared to theory counterparts in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience that have better...

An extensive set of measurements was made in and around Mexico City as part of the MILAGRO (Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations) experiments in March 2006. Simulations with the Model for Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers, version 4 (MOZART4), a global chemical transport model, have been used to provide a regional context for these observations and assist in their interp...

Thus far, we have been automatizing the time-span analysis of Jackendoff and Lehrdahl’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM). We have also introduced the distance between two time-span trees and verified by an experiment that the distance was properly supported by the psychological similarity. In this paper, we synthesize a new piece of music using the algebraic operations on timespan trees,...

Thirty-five year-old Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna after an acute illness that lasted only 15 days but no consensus has been reached on the cause of his death. From many letters written by his farther it is almost certain that he experienced at least three episodes of acute rheumatic fever attack in his childhood, and a relapse of rheumatic fever was suggested to have killed Mozart, although de...