At 01:06 PM 1/5/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Another potentially interesting use of music is reflected in research > > > from a music teacher in this country (UK) which purported to show > > > that playing Mozart to school pupils increased their capacity to > > > learn. > >The so called Mozart effect was a very attractive hypothesis, but after 10 >years of research, became clear that unfortunately do not exist.
Even worse, the "Mozart effect" largely has become a sustained propaganda effort for one man, Campbell, to pedal his brand of snake oil. Here is a superficial little summary: <http://skepdic.com/mozart.html> Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html