Let's take a look at how this statement came from. "Mozart effect" is a term compiled by a French doctor named Tometti in 199 1, which comes from his book "Why listen to Mozart". He washed his ears with Mozart's music. He believes that when the ear is stimulated by different frequencies of music, it helps to improve hearing and has a brain-strengthening effect. 1In June, 993, Francis Lauscher of the University of California published a one-page paper in Nature, which finally set off a whirlwind of "Mozart effect" around the world. So what kind of research did Lauscher do?
First, Lauscher will recruit 36 college students into three groups. Before the test, some students were asked to listen to Mozart's op. 448 10 minutes in D major, while others listened to relaxing music tapes or kept quiet. Then let everyone take a few exams together, and the result is amazing! Students who listen to Mozart's music have enhanced their spatial reasoning ability, which is manifested in their sense of space and can better complete tasks such as origami and distinguishing things. If evaluated by numbers, students who listen to Mozart's music are 3 points higher than other students on the Stanford-Biner Intelligence Scale. In order to facilitate people's understanding, Lauscher converted the results into IQ values that people prefer. It was found that students who listened to Mozart's music scored 8-9 points higher on average in these tests. Lauscher concluded that Mozart's music can enhance people's spatial reasoning ability.
The following year, Alex Ross, a music columnist in The New York Times, skillfully used the title "Listen to Mozart, it's Prozac" when reporting this research. In this article, Ross claimed that listening to Mozart's music really makes you smarter, and praised the research. If things stay here, that's fine, but many people always have a superficial understanding of things and pursue simple causality. In the end, the results of this study were misunderstood and exaggerated by many people, and the conclusion was over-interpreted as "listening to Mozart's music can improve children's IQ."
Smart merchants immediately smelled the benefits and began to publicize the magic of the "Mozart effect". They claim that expectant mothers can subtly promote the intellectual development of the fetus by listening to these music. Even some government departments are involved. 1998, the Georgian government announced that it would allocate105,000 dollars every year to buy a classical music CD for all children in the state. Florida has gone further, legally requiring all nurseries to play Mozart music for children for at least half an hour every day. The government has said that listening to Mozart's music can improve IQ and get more popular support.
Objectively speaking, the biggest beneficiary of Mozart Effect today may not be Qian Qian's parents and their children, but an American musician named Don Campbell. He has never participated in any music and intelligence research, and he took the lead in grabbing the trademark of "Mozart effect". Later, he started by editing and distributing Mozart's classical music, became famous and made a fortune. Of course, he can't count on the China market. We have enough seeds.