In The Field

Mozart doesn’t make you clever

German government decides to tackle the myth of the ‘Mozart effect’.

Passively listening to Mozart — or indeed any other music you enjoy — does not make you smarter. But more studies should be done to find out whether music lessons could raise your child’s IQ in the long term, concludes a report analysing all the scientific literature on music and intelligence, which was published last week by the German research ministry.

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