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Scientific studies have provided evidence that listening to Mozart can actually raise an individual´s IQ. This article explains the "Mozart effect".

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Most people notice that the right tunes are just what they need to wake them up or help them fall asleep. Music eases tension, depression, stress, and anxiety. It also can even increase IQ levels! Although music’s magic has been known for ages, only recently have its benefits on cognitive performance come to the scientific forefront. The studies have resulted in controversy, but the results are astonishing.

Music’s ability to increase intelligence is known as the Mozart effect. Gordon Shaw and Francis Rauscher conducted the study that revealed such an innovative solution to “brain block” through the University of California in 1993. The experiment involved 26 undergraduate students. They were subjected to listening to ten minutes of a Mozart sonata, relaxation exercises designed to reduce blood pressure, and then silence. The results showed that their IQ scores increased eight to nine points only when listening to Mozart. The effect lasted ten to fifteen minutes. The Mozart effect works by arousing the cerebral cortex, which contributes to mental processes such as memory, speech, motor function, and auditory reception. The cerebral cortex is the portion of the brain that organizes neural impulses into patterns. Mozart helps to make this process more efficient!

Classical music works for the IQ due to its complicated nature. The studies that have verified the Mozart effect have not found many other substitutes that show improvement in spatial performance. Some sources claim that the benefits can even be found in infants. Whether or not listening to classical music improves an infant’s intelligence is not certain. Not much testing on this subject has been done on infants and adolescents.

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