The Mozzart Effect

In early 1992, researchers from the University of California, Irvine discovered that college students performed much better in math testing while Mozart music was being played.

This was a phenomenal discovery. Although these findings pertained only to college students, everyone was curious to see if playing Mozart might have a positive effect on the early baby's brain.

The connection between intelligence and exposure to music may seem like urban legend, but in fact there is a good deal of fact to support it. Exposing children to music early in their lives causes neurons in the brain to fire, thus linking them to other neurons, forming connections called synapses. The more synapses created, and the more precise the firings, the better the chance a baby has of performing well intellectually.

The music area of the brain is close to the math area, and stimulation of either area helps in the development of complex thought processes.

"Synapses can’t wait—birth to four years is the ideal time to expose children to music"
- Princeton Review

Playing Mozart's music to a baby in hopes that her brain will become better hardwired seems like an obvious theory - but is it the perfect match?

Studies have shown that playing most forms of classical music can create a more positive environment and therefore can be beneficial, however - if you want to specifically prepare your baby's brain for enhanced spatial-temporal reasoning (understanding and being able to SEE the concepts behind math) - then you need to look deeper than just any classical music.

Specifically, a baby's brain is an enormous potential, just sitting there, waiting to understand things. Science now knows that Mozart's music is a "key" that opens the door to higher math understanding and is matched to a college-level brain. Therefore it follows that a baby's brain - being much simpler and lacking fundamental understanding - would experience the same higher level of understanding while hearing music that is equally suited.