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The Original Study
The original study was conducted by Rauscher and Shaw. They hypothesized that listening to classical music warms up the neural transmitters in the cerebral cortex thereby improving spatial intelligence. The conducted a UCLA, involving 36 undergraduate students. They played Mozart's Sonata for two pianos in D-major, K.448. When given an IQ test those who were in the group that listened to Mozart had an 8-9 point increase in their IQ. Although they had an increase it was short term. They say it only lasted about ten minutes, but it led to the question: if classical music can increase your spatial intelligence by listening to it for ten minutes, what could the long term effects be?