Blur beat Mozart in IQ music chart

[GlastoWatch]

I wonder where Jedward is on the chart?

FORGET the Mozart effect. Damon Albarn may be better for stretching a child’s intellect, researchers have found.
The study found that children’s brainpower is boosted more by music they like than by apparently more complex classical music.
Susan Hallam, of London University’s Institute of Education, and Glenn Schellenberg of Toronto University tested 8,000 10- 11-year-old children by playing them 10 minutes each of Albarn’s band Blur, Mozart and Hallam’s voice.
The children then performed spatial reasoning tests. Hallam and Schellenberg concluded there was no scientific basis for the so-called “Mozart effect” and that the pupils performed slightly better after listening to Blur’s songs. Hallam’s voice was the least beneficial.
Proponents of the Mozart effect, first identified in a study in 1993, claim that music by classical composers can improve children’s cognitive skills because of its complexity.
Hallam said: “I don’t think there is a Mozart effect, it’s completely untenable. It’s nothing to do with Mozart, it’s totally to do with your arousal levels and how much you concentrate.”
An update of the academic research by Hallam and Schellenberg appears in a new book investigating the effect of music on the brain.
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It, by Philip Ball, argues that music is central to education because it boosts IQ by cultivating logic and reason.
Lesley Garrett, singer of both classical and pop music, brought her children up on a combination of music types, believing this would benefit them academically as well as socially.
She said: “Pop music has its strengths in rhythm — it’s more instantly viscerally exciting and the energy that children get out of pop music is more immediate.
“I was played all kinds of music from a very early age and performed it too. Every kind of music that I’ve been exposed to and every kind that my children have been exposed to has had an enormously beneficial effect. Music is the glue that holds other academic subjects together.”
The Mozart effect was first claimed in a study by University of Wisconsin academics, published in Nature magazine in 1993. This went on to spawn a popular movement including a best-seller by Don Campbell called The Mozart Effect and Disney Baby Mozart DVDs.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle7017902.ece

[Davros]

I liked classical music as a very small child. Especially Tchaikovsky's 18 12 overture and Beethoven symphony no 5.

I remember being immensley frustrated by my inability to say Tchaikovsky. The closest I could get was chi-cough-ski.

This was before starting school. I listed to vey little music during my school years. Was more interested in William books which I bet increase ones IQ more.

I bet galaxy 105 measurably lowers IQ.

[Davros]

Oh and fire. I was very interested in fire. I spent more time collecting wood for bonfire night than I did looking forward to christmas.

My dad once suggested I became a fire fighter to which I replied that I didnt want to put fires out, but to start them.