【動畫】莫札特效應,到底真唔真?
坊間流傳,聽古典音樂可以提高小朋友的智商;懷孕時期聽莫札特作品作為胎教,甚至可以培育出天才BB,所以連港產動畫片《麥兜響噹噹》中的麥太,也要大住個肚跑去參加「莫札特效應學習班」。
雖然胎兒有聽覺和記憶力是事實,但所謂「莫札特效應」,到底有多真?
要拆解這謎團,便要從歷史講起。
在1991年,法國醫生Dr. Alfred Tomatis提倡運用莫札特音樂去治療自閉症和其他學習障礙問題時所創造,但真正令這概念發揚光大的,卻是美國加州大學心理學家Dr. Frances Rauscher……
參考資料
- Lise Eliot, What’s going on in there: How the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life. Bantam (1999), p. 449-451.
- F. H. Rauscher et al., “Music and spatial task performance”, Nature(1993), p.611; “Listening to Mozart enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: Towards a neurophysiological basis”, Neuroscience Letters(1995), p.44-47; “Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children’s spatial-temporal reasoning”, Neurological Research(1997), p.2-8.
- Abbott, Alison. “Mozart doesn’t make you clever”. Nature. com. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
- John Medina, Brain rules: How to raise a smart and happy child from zero to five. Pear Press(2010), p.22-53.
- Steele K.M. et al., “Prelude or requiem for the ‘Mozart effect’?”, Nature (1999), p.827-827.