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I am doing a research paper and would like an honest public opinion, particularly from those with personal experience. Thanks:)
To those of you who have already answered….Thank you so much for your help!! It was greatly appreciated:)
EFT EnergiPsykoterapi
I am doing a research paper and would like an honest public opinion, particularly from those with personal experience. Thanks:)
To those of you who have already answered….Thank you so much for your help!! It was greatly appreciated:)
EFT EnergiPsykoterapi
it is not scientificaaly proven but some people still do it and everyone has variable results
Nope.
What science has shown is that classical music can encourage the creation of neurons. This is not at all an issue with the normal child who is creating neurons at a fast pace already, but may be helpful for the child with a brain injury such as a brain bleed. It may encourage neurons to form more quickly to replace the damaged part. So far, only shown to occur in mice.
The claim that classical music makes ‘smarter’ kids was disproven as a disproportionate number of people who listen to classical music also have higher educations. Smart people tend to produce smart children.
I don’t have personal experience (yet) so I can’t help you on that front. However, I recently read an article about newborns and what exactly they hear and do when they are born. Babies when they are first born are forming neural connections – because of this babies tend to tune out a lot of noise. They respond mostly to high pitched exaggerated tones (hence, baby talk) – music tends to fall out of this picture and is thus sometimes ignored. This applies to very young infants. However, in my opinion there is no harm in exposing infants to classical music – it could be helpful but it certainly is not harmful.
This is ONE study I read. I am sure some researches refute this finding.
I have not experienced this, but I have read research and do know a couple who uses this technique. Supposedly yes! Classical music such as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc. have varying effects on newborns. The theory behind this is that the sound stimulates different parts of the baby’s brain. Thus helping in the development of his or her brain. Hope this helps!
Info below from babycenter.com
Listening to classical music may soothe your infant and turn her into a classical fan later in life, but it won’t make her smarter. Researchers at Appalachian State University believe that they’ve debunked what has been called the Mozart Effect, a temporary increase in intelligence experienced after listening to a piano sonata written by the famed composer.
The Mozart Effect was first reported in 1993 by scientists at the University of California at Irvine, and replicated by the same group in 1995. The study (which did not look at the effect of Mozart on babies) found that college students who listened to a Mozart sonata for a few minutes before taking a test that measured spatial relationship skills did better than students who took the test after listening to another musician or no music at all. The effect in the students was temporary (it lasted only 15 minutes) and has always been controversial.
Nonetheless, the media and politicians hopped on the Mozart Effect bandwagon and claimed that listening to the music offered numerous benefits and could alleviate physical and mental health problems. The notion that babies would be smarter if they listened to classical music was born out of this hype. Last year, the governor of Georgia mandated that a classic music CD — which contained the sonata and other pieces and was donated by Sony — be given to all new babies when they left the hospital.
Despite popular sentiment, the evidence that listening to classical music made anybody smarter was tenuous at best. The lead researcher in the original U.C. Irvine study himself said in a recent Forbes article that the idea that classical music can cure health problems and make babies smarter has no basis in reality, even though he believes that listening to a Mozart sonata can prime the brain to tackle mathematical tasks.
The researchers at Appalachian State University were unable to duplicate the original Mozart Effect results and found that the presence or absence of classical music did not significantly affect student performance on tests. Their results can be found in the July issue of Psychological Science
I think a few studies have shown no difference in IQ’s for children who were exposed to music in utero v.s. those who were not.