Not to kill the kreshendo scholars, but Mozart’s work just may not be all it’s composed to be. While the study quickly gained national attention – so much so that the governor of Georgia in 1998 announced a state budget featuring funds to provide every child born in George with a tape or CD of classical music – it was soon debunked and disproved. The concept was introduced in the early 1990s and based on a study measuring children’s performance on spatial tasks after being exposed to Mozart. You’ve probably heard of the “Mozart Effect”, the idea that people become smarter after listening to certain types of music, particularly Mozart or classical style music.
