Study Finds That Mozart Music Makes You Smarter

If I listen to Mozart, will I become smart enough to prove this silly theory wrong?

I remember that the authors of ‘Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain’ were pushing this one in the 1970s. It’s one of those things only GPT-3 would believe right up there with watching Tik Tok can give you a tic.

The nature paper itself (it's not even a full page)

https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/365611a0

This is basic correlation vs causation filterable stuff.

From 1993. And I thought it was long discredited.

surely. A 10 point IQ increase? I find this failure to replicate:

https://www.scinapse.io/papers/2126729094

Abstract:

The Mozart effect is the purported increase in spatial-reasoning performance immediately after exposure to a Mozart piano sonata. Several laboratories have been unable to confirm the existence of the effect despite two positive reports from the original laboratory. The authors of the original studies have provided a list of key procedural components to produce the effect. This experiment attempted to produce a Mozart effect by following those procedural instructions and replicating the procedure of one of the original positive reports. The experiment failed to produce either a statistically significant Mozart effect or an effect size suggesting practical significance. This general lack of effect is consistent with previous work by other investigators. We conclude that there is little evidence to support basing intellectual intervention programs on the existence of the Mozart effect.