(HealthDayNews) -- Listening to complex music, like a Mozart sonata, has been proven to improve brain function. But does that mean you'll stay smart all day if you listen to "Sonata in F Major" with your morning coffee?
Not quite.
Researchers at the Institute for Neurophysiologie in Vienna used an electroencephalogram to measure the effects on the brain, and to see how long "the Mozart effect" lasted after the music stopped. For some people, the effect stopped when the music did. In others, it could still be measured, but only for three minutes. Then the brain patterns returned to normal.
