The blur of the Mozart effect

28 August 2016 - 02:00
By BARRY ROSS

There is no proof that classical music helps improve IQ, writes Barry RossIn 1993, a research team of psychologists Frances Rauscher, Gordon Shaw and Katherine Ky published some surprising experimental results in the scientific periodical Nature.The team had tested people's performances on a spatial reasoning puzzle usually included in a standard IQ test.

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