Revisiting The Mozart Effect
- Author
- BAM Radio Network
- Published
- Wed 27 Oct 2010
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- http://www.bamradionetwork.com
The term "The Mozart Effect" was first coined by Alfred A. Tomatis who used Mozart's music as the listening stimulus in his work attempting to cure a variety of disorders. The approach has been popularized in a book by Don Campbell, and is based on an experiment published in Nature suggesting that listening to Mozart temporarily boosted students' IQ by 8 to 9 points.
