... music just monotone desks and white bland chalkboards. He/she sits in a desk and is ready for a gruesome, long test. The teacher puts on music from an artist named, Mozart. Listening to Mozart produces a brief but significant increase in performance of a spatial IQ task in students. (Nature, 1990, 365,611.) In the early 1990s, Mr. Shaw and his partner, Frances H. Rauscher, conducted ... music just monotone desks and white bland chalkboards. He/she sits in a desk and is ready for a gruesome, long test. The teacher puts on music from an artist named, Mozart. Listening to Mozart produces a...

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... was focused on language. This discovery was made by studying patients suffering from a stroke on different sides of the brain. More modern measurements demonstrated this correlation, showing that men's verbal IQ suffered by 20 percent when there was a stroke on the left side of the brain. Again, women do not show such a dramatic drop in language skill. Scientists were confident that ... that there are anatomical differences in the eyes of the two sexes. Female eyes are better at discerning colors and textures while male eyes are better at seeing movement. This test further cements biolo...

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... Brain Dominance 8 researcher into the subject has concluded that the brains of men and women are different. (Moir, 1991) In the 1950's, Dr. D. Wechsler, an American scientist who developed the IQ test most commonly used today, found out that 30 tests discriminated' in favor of one or the other sex. He tried to alter this discovery by cutting out some of the ... ...

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