Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Music and Intelligence: Can Music Make You Smarter?
This online course unpacked the relationship between music and intelligence, debunking the myths and reinforcing the evidence-based facts. It first explored the concept of intelligence and the popularity of intelligence tests and then further investigated intelligence in the context of music—whether simply listening to music or undergoing actual training.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Massimo Grassi
Professor of Auditory and audiovisual perception and psychophysics, psychophysical methods
University of Padova
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe what intelligence is, the complexity behind it, how it is measured, and the factors that change it.
- Explain the relationship between music and intelligence.
- Investigate information on cognition to differentiate between claims that are too good to be true and those that might be substantial and evidence-based.
- Apply what they have learned to research studies that investigate whether a treatment of any kind (e.g. a short music training or music-related activity) may improve one’s cognition.
Syllabus
- Intelligence: what is intelligence, how can it be measured, which factors change or modulate intelligence?
- Listening to music and intelligence: can we improve our intelligence by listening to music? What is the myth of the Mozart effect?
- Playing music and intelligence: does playing a musical instrument make you smarter?
- How does music affect learning?
Issued on 13th February 2024
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