About twenty-five years ago, the results of an exciting new study were reported in the news: If children listen to the music of Mozart, they 1 will become would become became more intelligent. Immediately, huge numbers of Mozart CDs were purchased by people 2 who which what wanted their children to be smarter. The statement was generally assumed to be true. After all, 3 most of the most of most people think Mozart was a genius, and maybe if we listened to his music, his intelligence 4 might had better should transfer to us.
However, if you read about the experiment 5 it - that led to this claim, there is little evidence it’s true. Firstly, children 6 were not tested would not be tested did not test in the original experiment. University students were. The thirty-six young adults who took part did one of three things for ten minutes. Some sat in silence, 7 other others another listened to some relaxation instructions and a third group listened to Mozart’s piano music. Afterwards, they all completed various tasks, one of which involved paper shapes. This experiment 8 had repeated repeated was repeated three times. It was found that the students 9 listened who they listened who listened to Mozart did better in the paper shapes activity than 10 other others the other students. However, the beneficial effect only lasted for about fifteen minutes.
11 From Since For then, a number of similar experiments have been conducted which confirm that listening to Mozart’s music 12 used to must can lead to a temporary improvement in a person’s ability to do spatial puzzles. They don’t however, improve intelligence. Other studies showed that there is 13 nothing not anything special about Mozart’s music. 14 Listen Listening To listen to other classical music, pop music and even stories can also wake up the brain. The effect is especially strong if the listener likes the sound.
So, listening to Mozart won’t harm your children. It could even lead to a love of classical music. But if they have an important test ahead, you 15 might should may probably tell them to study instead of listening to some music on.