Agnew 1 Phillip Agnew Ms. Stephanie Behne English II March 8, 2000 MUSIC AND THE MIND: THE CONTROVERSY BEHIND THE MOZART EFFECT Every aspiring mother and father in America dreams about having their child attend Harvard, or Yale, or MIT. For generations parents have attempted to get a head start on that dream in hopes that it would make the child smarter after conception. A good diet, exercise, singing, and verbal communication have all been said to help …showed first 75 words of 449 total…

…showed last 75 words of 449 total…but the media has exaggerated music’s affect on the body and possibly opened the way for a new form of medicine. Since the breaking of this news, parents have been offered yet another way to help develop their children’s minds. Research has found that infants do benefit form many developmental enhancements attributed to music. One of these is the ability to express themselves through an instrument or by other means of expression (Kranz 1).