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LESSON 2 · Legends of the Stage

PAUSE TO THINK

Is the 'Mozart Effect' — the idea that listening to Mozart makes you smarter — real?

Only a tiny temporary effect.

The 1993 study found that college students scored slightly higher on spatial reasoning tasks right after listening to Mozart — an effect that lasted about 15 minutes and was never reliably replicated.

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