ABSTRACT
Several studies indicated that music exposure can enhance people’s learning and memory (Rauscher, 1993). Meanwhile, Hong et al. demonstrated that prenatal music caused the increase of neurogenesis in the hippocampus and enhanced spatial learning ability in young rats, but some researches considered that exposure to the music in utero would have been ineective because rats are deaf as newborns (Steele, 2003). It is well known that CA3 is an important structure in the hippocampus, and it is closely related to the spatial learning and memory (Handelman et al., 1981). In the present study, we explored the eect of postnatal music on the spatial memory by Morris water maze, and measured the expression of BDNF in rat CA3 region, which plays an important role in memory formation.
