Keeping Mozart in Mind or Good Fats Bad Fats

Keeping Mozart in Mind

Author: Gordon L Shaw

The demand for math and science skills in our technology-driven world is at a premium, and yet U.S. students continue to lag behind many other industrialized countries in these areas. This book, based on studies conducted on 8000 elementary school-aged children, proposes that not only is there a relationship between music and math comprehension, but that music can be utilized to heighten higher brain function and improve math skills. The enclosed CD-Rom includes (1) a recording of Allegro con spirito from Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu, courtesy of Sony ClassicalTM, and (2) a descriptive interactive version of S.T.A.R.TM (Spatial-Temporal Animation Reasoning) software program. While this book's discussion of the breakthroughs in understanding of spatial-temporal reasoning abilities will be of particular interest to neuroscientists and cognitive researchers, the book is also accessible to parents and educators.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface to the First Edition
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Prologue
Pt. I	Higher Brain Function: Music, Mathematics, Chess
Ch. 1	History, Anecdotes, Correlations, and Interviews	3
Ch. 2	Spatial-Temporal and Language-Analytic Reasoning in Learning Math and Science	17
Ch. 3	Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning	29
Ch. 4	Implications: Scientific, Educational, Clinical	35
Pt. II	Structured Brain and Symmetry
Ch. 5	Symmetry as a Common Theme	43
Ch. 6	Introduction to the Brain: Basic Brain Features and Brain Imaging	53
Ch. 7	Mountcastle Theory of Mammalian Cortex: Internal Neural Language of Higher Brain Function	73
Ch. 8	Trion Model and Symmetries	87
Ch. 9	Trion Music: Reasoning and Creativity	121
Ch. 10	Trion Model of Higher Brain Function: Prediction that Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning	141
Pt. III	Tests of Predictions in Human Behavior
Ch. 11	Highly Accurate Mental Rehearsals: Correlation with Top Performance in Sports	147
Ch. 12	Listening to Mozart Sonata (K.448) Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: The "Mozart Effect"	159
Ch. 13	Music Training Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Preschool Children	169
Ch. 14	Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Equals Improved Math	185
Pt. IV	Tests from Brain Imaging and Animal Studies
Ch. 15	EEG and fMRI Studies of the Mozart Effect	205
Ch. 16	Symmetry in Primate Higher Brain Function	211
Ch. 17	Musical Structure of the Internal Neural Language of the Brain: Using Music as the Rosetta Stone to Help Decode this Internal Language	229
Ch. 18	Animal Behavior While Listening to Music and Doing Higher Brain Functions	239
Pt. V	The Future of Music as a Window into Higher Brain Function
Ch. 19	Child Brain Development and Adult Brain Reorganization	255
Ch. 20	Education: Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Improves Math	269
Ch. 21	Clinical Implications	281
Ch. 22	The Spatial-Temporal Thinking Machine	295
Ch. 23	Thoughts	301
Pt. VI	New Scientific and Educational Results
Ch. 24	Science Updates and Breakthroughs	325
Ch. 25	Revolution in Math Education	341
	Glossary	357
	Notes	369
	References	387
	Index	401

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Good Fats, Bad Fats: An Indispensable Guide to All the Fats You're Ever Likely to Encounter

Author: Rosemary Stanton

Most of us regard fat as the number-one food enemy — the element in food that stands between us and good health. But most people are unable to make informed choices about which foods to eat and which to avoid because they lack the basic facts about fats and are unaware of the differences between them. In Good Fats, Bad Fats, nutritionist Rosemary Stanton provides readers with an indispensable resource that looks at all types of fats — saturated, poly- and monounsaturated, cholesterol, evening primrose oil, omega-3s, and omega-6s — and explains in simple language what they are, what they do, which ones we should be eating, and which we should be avoiding or eating in moderation. A concise guide to the health pros and cons of every type of fat, the book provides information about how different fats are related to excess weight, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and various types of cancer. Illustrated with nine charts, this easy-to-read, informative guide will show that when it comes to diet and good health, all fats are not created equal.