I think that _teaching_ music to kids is a great way of stimulating
their intelligence and the development of their abilities, but I find
it hard to believe that the simple fact that they just _listen_ to
music will make them smarter. Maybe your intelligence actually
increases (for a limited amount of time) in response to sound
frequencies: you can stimulate it artificially by other known means,
though with no permanent results. However, all the hype around this
effect seems to be a huge load of BS (actually, the "Mozart effect" is
widely known as a classical example of a scientific myth).
In any case, teach your kids the practice of listening to good music
:). It won't hurt them for sure...

Cheers,

Pedro

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:29 PM, victor <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie> wrote:
> IMHO this is just woo-woo (http://www.skepdic.com/woowoo.html)...
>
>  Also see http://www.skepdic.com/mozart.html
>
>  Victor
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Akbari" <dakbari@gmail.com>
>  To: <csound@lists.bath.ac.uk>
>  Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:38 PM
>  Subject: [Csnd] Mozart effect
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I found this article today in the Journal of the Royal Society of
> > Medicine (JRSM) on the so-called "Mozart effect" where listeners were
> > able to demonstrate an increase in temporal-spatial ability and IQ
> > following exposure to K448 from the standard repertoire.
> >
> > http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/full/94/6/316-a
> >
> > My question is, have any of you out there done musical experiments or
> > research involving similar types of phenomena.
> >
> > The above paper cites the rate at which musical events are occurring
> > as key to producing this effect. Because of this, I immediately I
> > thought of the synthesis technique we have available in Csound scanned
> > synthesis contributed by Mathews et al. Since this type of synthesis
> > uses haptically varying modulation parameters to affect timbre, I'm
> > wondering if any investigators have observed this phenomenon with
> > synthesized sound stimuli in modern research or clinical contexts. If
> > not, what musical strategies might be useful in eliciting a similar
> > response pattern?
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your time and consideration,
> >
> >
> > David Akbari
> >
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