It seems that I am guilty of a crime. I played Mozart for my son when he was a baby and a toddler. Also Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini and others. According to an article published in The New Yorker on ...

New parents might want to put a pint-sized tambourine in their babies' hands and start them shaking. A new study has shown that musical playtime improves the way 9-month-olds' brains process both ...

In 1993, three dozen college students filed into a lab in Irvine, Calif., to take part in an unusual experiment. The lead researcher, Frances Rauscher, a red-haired woman in her late 30s and a former ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began composing music at age 5, and even if he was a prodigy, that biographical tidbit encapsulates the main point about music and how it affects children's abilities.

As we near the 250 th anniversary of his birth, Mozart still presides as the patron saint of modern child prodigies—and as a talismanic figure in the more mundane realm of bound-for-the-top ...

Everybody has heard some variation of the myth: Listening to Mozart as a baby makes you smarter. It's called the Mozart Effect, and it turns out it just isn't true. But there's a reason we all thought ...

Violin Sonata No. 17 in C Major, K. 296: I. Allegro vivace Violin Sonata No. 17 in C Major, K. 296: II. Andante sostenuto Violin Sonata No. 17 in C Major, K. 296: III. Rondo – Allegro Flute Quartet No ...

A story on Foxnews.com shed some new light on the so-called "Mozart Effect," a belief that playing classical music while pregnant will make your unborn baby smarter. No scientific evidence supports ...

Is Mozart good for babies? A group of Israeli doctors have plunged into this long-running debate with a small study that found the soothing sounds of the 18th century composer may help premature ...

To study whether Johan Sebastian Bach music has a lowering effect on resting energy expenditure (REE) similar to that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart music. Three REE measurements were performed in each of ...

Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural experience. At the other end of life, musical memories can be imprinted on the ...