1. Listening to Mozart Will Make You (Or Your Baby) Smarter
This myth is known as the “Mozart Effect” and has been made by the psychologist Frances Rauscher. His study showed that kids function better in certain tasks that require spatial and abstract thinking while listening to Mozart. Because of this study companies start selling Baby Mozart CDs for pregnant women.
But is it really true? After countless studies, we found out that listening to music in general leads to a temporary improvement in cognitive ability and abstract thinking. So, Mozart is not particularly special, all the music and even narrated books seem to give that temporary improvement.
