Many of us have heard about the practice of playing classical music for pregnant women or infants. But why do we do it? Where did ...

Chandler Branch, at his blog, explains: “A new report now suggests that the Mozart effect may be a fraud. For you hip urban professionals: No, playing Mozart for your designer baby may not improve his ...

In 1993, three dozen college students filed into a lab in Irvine, Calif., to take part in an unusual experiment. The lead researcher, Frances Rauscher, a red-haired woman in her late 30s and a former ...

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Playing along with the Mozart effect. If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener.

Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart’s Sonata ...

You may have heard the claim that listening to classical music makes you smarter. But is this just a myth, or does classical music really have an effect on the brain? Music, as they say, nourishes the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The sounds of Mozart might help slow premature infants' metabolism, potentially helping them to put on needed weight, according to an Israeli study. Most research into the ...