Most people think it is useful, but in fact it is almost known to be useless.
The scientific judge of "The Most Powerful Brain", Wei Kunlin, a Ph.D. in human brain research at Pennsylvania State University, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Psychology at Peking University, said this:
I know this is a big industry, but this industry is useless. I will give him a direct answer now: it is useless. Prenatal education and listening to music to the fetus will not make him smarter.
In the early days, it was actually an experiment that led to only one study on the relationship between music and fetal intelligence. That study was actually done on college students. They listened to Mozart's music and measured their IQ immediately after listening to it. Compared with the previously measured IQ, they found that there is a dimension in IQ. Immediately after listening to Mozart's music, their IQ was measured. It got better, I remember it seemed to be spatial ability. This is indeed an important ability of the human brain.
But the problem is that this is the data of college students. The short-term improvement of a certain ability of a college student may retract after a while. So how can this be translated to the fetus?
Maybe later there were many misunderstandings of the research results, including in the United States. I think many of China’s educational concepts, including children’s education, were copied from the United States. There are many educational concepts in the United States. Institutions have also misinterpreted this result. Some governors in the United States even said that we should allocate special funds to produce prenatal education CDs and distribute them for free.
Then the Chinese also believe this. First of all, it’s useless for me to tell you. The fetus inside you can’t hear clearly. If he talks about the belly, what does the belly actually mean? It's equivalent to a low-pass filter, which means it's really a buzzing sound inside, and he can't hear the music.
The sound he heard the most inside was actually his mother listening to her mother's speech, and it was my mother's heartbeat. In fact, after a child is born, the sound he is most sensitive to is the mother's voice and low-frequency sounds. His hearing also slowly developed.
There is no scientific evidence that if you listen to music for him, the child's intelligence will be higher, but listening to music may have a certain impact on the mother. Why? He will be in a happier mood when you listen to soothing music. The importance of mother is irreplaceable.
So, the most important thing is for the mother to be happy and enjoy herself, so that the child can develop better.