Mozart effect

English

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.

Proper noun

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.

Translations

supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart induces improvement in mental performance

• Arabic: تَأْثِير مُوتْسَارْت m (taʔṯīr mūtsārt)
• French: effet Mozart m
• German: Mozart-Effekt m
• Italian: effetto Mozart m
• Japanese: モーツァルト効果 (Mōtsaruto-kōka)
• Portuguese: efeito Mozart m