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Can Mozart music really improve children's IQ?
In an experiment conducted in London Obstetrics Hospital, Mozart's sonata seems to be particularly able to appease the fetus and stabilize its tiny heart. The same is true of Vivaldi's music, but the violent fragments of Beethoven, Brahms and rock music make it difficult for the fetus to sleep. This may be because Mozart and Vivaldi's music rhythm is 55-70 beats per minute, just like mom's heartbeat at rest. Some neuroscientists believe that Mozart's music fragments are repeated regularly every 20 to 30 seconds, which can trigger a strong reaction in the brain, because sleep patterns also follow a 30-second cycle. But this can only prove that the main function of Mozart effect is "appeasement", and there is no scientific evidence to prove that it makes babies smart.
In an experiment conducted by 1993, 36 college students volunteered to take part in the test: the subjects were divided into three groups. The first group played Mozart music for 10 minutes, the second group played relaxed instrumental music for 10 minutes, and the third group sat quietly without listening to any music. 10 minutes later, the tester selected some questions in Stanford Binet.Alfred. Alfred scale to test subjects. Finally, the test results show that the first group is better than the second group and the third group. The researchers concluded that Mozart's music seems to have caused changes in the brain, which "warmed up" neural connections and thus promoted thinking. This kind of music, which only listened to 10 minutes, was widely publicized as the behavioral progress caused by Mozart effect, but it could not be verified repeatedly. It seems that Mozart's music did not lead to a real change in ability, but only promoted a kind of awakening and emotional state, which made people concentrate on exams.
References:
1, Lauscher, F.H., Xiao, G.L., & Kentucky (1993). Music and space task performance. Naturally, 365(6447), 6 1 1
Although there is no conclusive evidence to prove the existence of the so-called "Mozart effect", there are still many people who are keen on saying that as long as the baby listens to classical music for a while, the neural connections in the brain can be formed rapidly and will benefit his intelligence for life. Soon, Georgia, Tennessee and South Dakota began to provide free CDs to hospitalized newborns. But no one has done any research on the influence of Mozart effect on infants, and an experiment on school-age children has not come to the conclusion that just listening to music can promote intellectual progress.
Research shows that in order to keep the psychological test score increasing, the intervention measures must be long-term and children must actively participate. Glen Schellenberg (2004) wondered whether music courses could promote intellectual development. Children who are trained in music courses must formally engage in practice, concentrate on reading music scores, memorize phrases and paragraphs, analyze music structure and master playing skills. These experiences may contribute to cognitive processing, especially in childhood, when various brain regions are forming corresponding functions and have high plasticity and sensitivity to environmental impact. Shellenberger has recruited 132 six-year-olds who are just old enough to receive music course training. At first, these children were tested for intelligence and social maturity to investigate which aspect of music class research was randomly assigned to four experimental conditions: two groups were music group and one group was piano class; The third group took drama classes to find out whether intellectual progress only happened under the condition of musical experience; The fourth group is the control group, which doesn't have classes and gives them music lessons the next year. The famous Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto teaches music and drama. The children are divided into groups and taught by professional teachers. After 36 weeks of courses, children's intelligence and social maturity were tested again.
The results show that the intelligence test scores of the four groups of children have improved, which may be because these children have just entered primary school, and enrollment can generally promote the progress of intelligence test scores. But the scores of the two music groups are higher than those of the drama group and the non-class group. Although their lead is not much, the scope involves several aspects of psychological ability, such as speaking ability, spatial ability, thinking speed and so on. In terms of social maturity, only the drama group has made progress.
It seems that active and continuous music experience can lead to a slight increase in the intelligence of 6-year-old children, exceeding comparable drama courses. But other colorful activities, such as reading, science, math and chess, will bring similar benefits. All these activities require children to devote much more time and energy than Mozart's sonatas. But even without any evidence, record companies still sell CDs with different names, such as Let Mozart Tune Your Brain, Music for Learning, Listening to Mozart for Newborns: A Brilliant Start, and so on.
Children who have been trained in music lessons for dozens of weeks have made greater progress in intellectual performance than those who have been trained in drama and those who have not been trained.
References:
Laura E. Berk's psychology of lifelong development.
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Science has proved that music, math and chess are good for the brain.
In order to find out what music is good for the brain, some scientists use magnetic resonance imaging and neutron radiation scanning to detect the human brain in real time to understand how the brain works. The research process is as follows:
mathematics
When people are dealing with some things, the brain is connected with the brain imager. When reading or doing math problems, only a certain area of the brain will be activated and can be seen in real time through the computer screen.
music
When instrumental musicians play music, many areas of the whole brain are awakened, which is equivalent to a full-body exercise. Almost every cell in the brain is awakened and activated, including the motor, visual and auditory cerebral cortex.
play chess
Chess is an intellectual sport, and every move has to go through a lot of calculation and judgment before it can be decided. Children need a high degree of concentration and the ability to think and solve problems independently. Both of them play chess, but they use their brains in different ways: the right brain is dominant when playing Go, and the left brain is often used when playing chess.
In 2002, Professor Zhang Daren and other researchers cooperated with relevant universities in the United States to complete the brain functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments of Go and Chess in the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Minnesota in the United States, and analyzed and compared their brain activities. It is found that when playing Go, many brain regions located in the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe and posterior frontal lobe are activated, and the activation intensity of the right parietal lobe is higher than that of the left parietal lobe, showing the advantage of the right brain. When playing chess, the "output" is more just the left parietal lobe. This suggests that Weiqi may involve more unique human brain mechanisms that we don't understand-the overall information coordination and processing ability.
Although music is obviously good for children's intelligence, it is not effective for everyone. Influenced by congenital factors, a few people are in the highest state of musical pleasure, and can get a pleasant emotional experience that ordinary people can't achieve, but a few people can't get pleasure from music. If your child can't get any happiness from music, then you can try reading, science, math, chess and other things that can make him happy. After all, music is not the only way to make his brain smart.
Moreover, don't think that music enlightenment must take children to professional training classes outside. Actually, we can do it at home. Children are very familiar with the family environment. Children who engage in informal music activities in a relaxed environment are more sensitive to temporal acoustic changes, more mature in auditory changes and less likely to be distracted. Take my daughter Miki as an example: In order to exercise her musical cells, I bought a set of "French Children's Music Enlightenment Vocalization Book", which includes Mozart, orchestral music, brass music and rock music. In the book, every instrument is integrated into it through the story, so that children can understand all kinds of instrumental music in reading. Mark himself can tell which instrument it is by the sound every time he presses the button. In addition to music books, CDs, audio and so on. Can be used. There are many ways, and you can try different things.