Is the Mozart effect a soap bubble? In 1993, two scientists at the University of California in the United States asked college students to listen to Mozart's piano music or relaxed beats. The final discovery was surprising: those who listened to Mozart's piano music were no more than 10 years old. The students who listened to the music for 5 minutes had their spatial imagination test scores increased by 62%, while those of the students who listened to the relaxed beats only saw their scores increase by 14%. Scientists have concluded that listening to Mozart's music is good for us to form and improve our spatial imagination. This is the Mozart effect. Later observations also found that this Mozart effect was more obvious when children were allowed to play more of Mozart's piano music. Over a two-year period, researchers asked preschoolers to work in groups on piano, singing, computers, or nothing at all, and then tested their ability to arrange a pile of disorganized intellectual toys. The results were equally surprising: Children who took Mozart piano lessons improved their spatial imagination by 34% compared with the average child. Some scientists believe that the underlying reason for this effect is that the nervous system that performs calculations happens to be close to the nervous system that processes music. If you often listen to and play Mozart's piano music, your computing power will naturally be improved. After the Mozart Effect was widely publicized by the media, Mozart's music works on the shelves of video stores in many countries became a hot commodity. Because people firmly believe: Mozart will make you smarter! But not everyone follows the trend blindly. Some scientists have found that most music studies related to intelligence are either irreproducible or the effects quickly disappear after 20 minutes of listening to the music. Even if there is some effect, it doesn't have to be listening to Mozart. Listening to any kind of music is almost the same, and even listening to stories can have similar effects. Not long ago, the German government commissioned a nine-member committee, including neuroscientists, psychologists, educationists and philosophers, to thoroughly study the literature related to the Mozart Effect to see if there is really a Mozart Effect. Afterwards, the committee came to the conclusion that the Mozart Effect does not exist. The reason is that the original research of scientists was mainly limited to college students, and there has never been any relevant research with strict testing data on teenagers of other identities and age groups. Therefore, the conclusions drawn by one-sided research are unscientific; secondly, even if the Mozart effect exists, its effect is far from magical, and its help in improving intelligence is temporary, small and local, and is limited to time. and spatial-related reasoning abilities. In this way, the Mozart effect is basically a myth, and people's past enthusiasm for Mozart's music should be said to be an almost absurd farce. Is the initial discovery of scientists really absurd? Is the Mozart effect really a soap bubble with bright colors? Einstein testified Regarding the issue of the Mozart effect, the scientific giant Einstein, who loved music, was quite knowledgeable. opinion. At a concert for charity, the American composer and educator Dr. Herbert Zippel asked Einstein, who was a violinist at the event: "What does music mean to you? What is its importance?" "Einstein replied without hesitation: "If I had not received music education in my early years, I would have accomplished nothing in any career." He also said: "Whenever I encounter a problem, in order to make it work. When my mind was clear, I picked up the violin and played." This passage shows that for Einstein, music does have irreplaceable magic. Is there any scientific basis for his opinion? After detailed investigation and experiments, scientists believe that the magic of music can be demonstrated in many ways. Scientists have confirmed that the rhythm of music can significantly affect human behavior and physiological rhythms, such as breathing and movement speed, and heart rate. The melodious melody can make people eliminate distracting thoughts, calm their mind, relax their breathing, relax their whole body, relax their tense cerebral cortex, and have the effects of lowering blood pressure and sedating. When a person is sick, the vibration frequency of the organs will change, and music can cause the diseased organs to vibrate beneficially through the vibration of its own sound waves, thereby correcting the frequency of the diseased organs and making them coordinated to cure the disease. purpose. A British doctor prescribed to a patient suffering from nervous stomach pain: listen to records of the classical composer Bach every day after meals, and the patient subsequently recovered. Scientists have also found that relaxing music can also help people treat psychological trauma caused by surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and improve the efficacy by providing mental encouragement to patients. In addition, music can also change the way the brain operates, strengthen the connection between the left and right brains, improve mental functions, including improving people's understanding, observation and analysis abilities, and can effectively stimulate children's brain development, which is helpful for babies' prenatal education and improving IQ. It can also help slow down the aging process of the elderly. From this perspective, the Mozart effect should be real, because it is a type of music after all, and it undoubtedly has the magic of music in a general sense. In this way, the works of any music master can be described as "!"# effect"? There is nothing special about the Mozart effect? ??Mozart is really "special". The latest research has found that the Mozart effect not only has general musical effects In addition, there is something really special about it. It makes scientific sense to name this effect individually and to generalize it. People who are proficient in music know that different music masters have different styles. Mozart absorbed some essence from his music, but he still had his own distinctive personality in many aspects such as rhythm, melody, and musical form.

In terms of using music to express emotions, their styles are even more different. For example, Beethoven likes to vent his emotions from music like a waterfall, while Mozart quietly releases his emotions bit by bit, and then lets the deep emotions return to the sea calmly like a river without revealing anything. Scientists' latest research has found that just the different personalities of music melody will have different effects on the human body, and the impact of Mozart's music melody is very special. American scientists applied Mozart's music to epilepsy treatment experiments and made important discoveries. They asked the patients participating in the experiment to listen to Mozart's "Sonata in D major" twice a day. The results showed that most of the typical brain symptoms of epilepsy patients who participated in the experiment were controlled, and the frequency and intensity of the attacks were significantly reduced. After using computers to analyze the works of several composers, they found that Mozart's music is characterized by a long melody repetition cycle, that is, the melody will be repeated regularly in the same work, but the repetition intervals are long. This feature enables his music to play an effective improvement and therapeutic role in people with poor spatial judgment or epilepsy patients. When they chose other music to replace Mozart's music according to this melody characteristic, they also found that the same results as the Mozart effect were produced. This suggests that what really affects the human brain is the physical properties of Mozart's music—the unique melody—rather than the emotional content expressed by the music. Scientists now believe that the Mozart effect cannot simply be equated with music effects in general, let alone beautiful soap bubbles; for this unique musical phenomenon, more should be learned from the physical characteristics of music and the physiological changes of the human body. From the perspective of mutual relations, extensive experiments and research have been carried out.