When Albert Einstein was a boy, his teachers believed that he was "too stupid to learn". They suggested that his mother skip school and start manual labor early, because he was a case desperate. But despite everything, his mother continued to make him go to school; furthermore he also bought him a violin. The violin soon became one of his greatest passions and he himself claimed that playing the violin was what made him smart. His friend, GJ Withrow, had said that whenever Einstein had trouble coming up with an equation he went to improvise on the violin. One reason that suggests this may have actually helped him is that music has been shown to have short-term improvements in one's "spatio-temporal reasoning." Temporal spatial reasoning is the ability to visualize spatial patterns or shapes and then mentally place them into particular sequences. A person with good spatial reasoning is able to mentally visualize what a folded sheet of paper will look like without having to use a physical model. This phenomenon has been given the name "Mozart Effect" because his compositions often have the strongest aftereffects of spatial reasoning. The music of Mozart and some pieces of baroque music, with a pattern of 60 beats per minute, were said to activate both the left and right sides of the brain. Because both parts were activated, learning capacity was greatly maximized, as was the ability to absorb information. The information studied activated the left brain while the right brain was activated by the music. One of the key findings was that the Mozart effect improved only some parts of spatio-temporal reasoning, such as the task of mentally visualizing a 3D object and... long-term memories. By listening to music they had listened to before or with a similar rhythm/melody, they could help them retrieve memories they had long stored in the back of their brain. Even if the music doesn't bring back a specific memory, it can bring back relevant emotions or feelings you had while listening to the piece. As if you hadn't already heard enough, the type of music we listen to has also been proven to change our perception of the world. Researcher Jacob Jolij and student Maaike Meurs from the Department of Psychology at the University of Groningen experimented on a group of patients by giving them the task of determining whether the smileys were happy or sad. It turned out that the melody strongly influenced their perception of how they saw the smiley, and most patients identified with the smiley that best suited the music.Conclusion