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Awww...glad you found something to make her feel better!!

What kind of classical music.. I mean who lol... I don't ever listen to it so I know nothing!

.Michelle

yep makes them smarter !! yeh walmart should have a good selection of classical music...mozart and them dudes! lol

lol @ them dudes.. I'm gonna try it I know she really loves .Bon .Jovi haha... "Living on a prayer"...

.Michelle

it's just an urban legend that classical music makes babies smarter. though it can't hurt to expose them to all different types of music and it is soothing.

As well as classical CDs and DVDs for very young children, this week sees the launch of a programme of concerts for babies - including those in utero.

Does playing classical music to babies make a difference? Opinion is divided; but many experts think that it may stimulate the brain in a way that helps educational and emotional development.

It's known as the Mozart Effect, a theory which is credited with boosting IQ, improving health, strengthening family ties and even producing the occasional child prodigy.

Numerous studies conclude that playing music to babies in the womb and in the early years helps build the neural bridges along which thoughts and information travel. And research suggests it can stimulate the brain's alpha waves, creating a feeling of calm; a recent study of premature infants found that they were soothed by the music.

In Florida, all state-funded pre-schools are required to play classical music by law, and many US hospitals give classical CDs to new mums.

In the UK, many parents have also embraced the theory, with Classic FM's Music for Babies CD enjoying several weeks at the top of the classical charts earlier this year.

between classes we were forced to listen to it in the halls in my high school.

the opinion is divided...

Listening to classical music may soothe your infant and turn her into a classical fan later in life, but it won't make her smarter. Researchers at Appalachian State University believe that they've debunked what has been called the "Mozart Effect," a temporary increase in intelligence experienced after listening to a piano sonata written by the famed composer.

The "Mozart Effect" was first reported in 1993 by scientists at the University of California at Irvine, and replicated by the same group in 1995. The study (which did not look at the effect of Mozart on babies) found that college students who listened to a Mozart sonata for a few minutes before taking a test that measured spatial relationship skills did better than students who took the test after listening to another musician or no music at all. The effect in the students was temporary (it lasted only 15 minutes) and has always been controversial.


Nonetheless, the media and politicians hopped on the "Mozart Effect" bandwagon and claimed that listening to the music offered numerous benefits and could alleviate physical and mental health problems. The notion that babies would be smarter if they listened to classical music was born out of this hype. Last year, the governor of Georgia mandated that a classic music CD — which contained the sonata and other pieces and was donated by Sony — be given to all new babies when they left the hospital.

Despite popular sentiment, the evidence that listening to classical music made anybody smarter was tenuous at best. The lead researcher in the original U.C. Irvine study himself said in a recent Forbes article that the idea that classical music can cure health problems and make babies smarter has no basis in reality, even though he believes that listening to a Mozart sonata can prime the brain to tackle mathematical tasks.

The researchers at Appalachian State University were unable to duplicate the original "Mozart Effect" results and found that the presence or absence of classical music did not significantly affect student performance on tests. Their results can be found in the July issue of Psychological Science.