The ‘Mozart effect’ began as a fifteen-minute bump on one spatial-reasoning test taken by 36 college students, then grew into a national belief that classical music makes babies smarter

The 1993 study was real. It measured a small, temporary gain on a single spatial task in adults. Almost everything the phrase came to mean was added afterward. The post The ‘Mozart effect’ began as a fifteen-minute bump on one spatial-reasoning test taken by …