Popular Myths That Have Been Debunked by Actual Science

Listening to Mozart Makes Babies Smarter

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Psychologist Frances Rauscher did a study that showed college students did better on assignments requiring abstract and spatial reasoning while listening to Mozart. This birthed the theory that babies got smarter in the womb if mothers played Mozart. But it’s not Mozart’s music alone. In reality, all classical music has the ability to make babies and grownups smarter but only for short periods of time.

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