Post by Zadkiel on May 12, 2016 11:01:14 GMT
Back in the 1990s, the results of a new musical study were published in Nature magazine. That study claimed that people listening to Mozart are more likely to score higher in spatial tasks. Those results were quickly disproven in other experiments, but the public's fascination with the original supposition quickly grew and expanded to claims that Mozart's music is likely to make you more intelligent in general. People bought Mozart recordings to play for their children and hoped for the next Einstein. But any special benefits that might come from Mozart - or any other composer or genre - have been well and truly debunked.
