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Gordon Shaw dies at 72.(physicist)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Gordon Shaw, a physicist whose research on classical music's effect on the brain produced an often-quoted study suggesting that listening to Mozart raises I.Q., died April 26 at his home in Laguna Beach, California.
Shaw gained national attention in 1993, when he reported that a group of college students who had listened to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major showed temporary increases in their I.Q.s.
Shaw was born in Atlantic City, graduated from the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland and earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Cornell. He was an expert on particle physics at the University of California, Irvine, when he began studying classical music's effect on higher-level thinking after a chance reading of a 1973 paper on brain theory.
With graduate student Xiaodan Leng, he devised a computer model and used it to match musical notes to brain patterns. The result was not Mozart, but something that did resemble Western classical music, he ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Gordon Shaw dies at 72.(physicist)(Brief Article)(Obituary)