Sie haben sicher schon von der These gehört, dass Babys, die schon früh und möglichst im Mutterbauch mit Mozart oder ruhiger Meditationsmusik berieselt werden, zu intelligenteren und kreativeren Wesen heranwachsen. Wie eine neue Studie belegt, ist das alles sehr wahrscheinlich kompletter Unfug:
Scientific American: Fact or Fiction?: Babies Exposed to Classical Music End Up Smarter
“In 1999 psychologist Christopher Chabris, now at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., performed a meta-analysis on 16 studies related to the Mozart effect to survey its overall effectiveness. “The effect is only one and a half IQ points, and it’s only confined to this paper-folding task,” Chabris says. He notes that the improvement could simply be a result of the natural variability a person experiences between two test sittings.
Earlier this year, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany published a second review study from a cross-disciplinary team of musically inclined scientists who declared the phenomenon nonexistent. “I would simply say that there is no compelling evidence that children who listen to classical music are going to have any improvement in cognitive abilities,” adds Rauscher, now an associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. “It’s really a myth, in my humble opinion.”
