The Mozart effect myth: Study finds no evidence for a positive effect of Mozart's melody on epilepsy SciReports
. This means, that the available RCT-based studies do not support the notion of a specific Mozart effect for epilepsy or other medical conditions.
The notion of a specific Mozart effect for epilepsy or any other medical conditions seems to be further called into question by our observation of similar largely positive trivial effects of any other music compared to non-musical stimuli. Again, none of the observed summary effects were significant, thus raising concerns about the power of included primary studies. The bias as well as subset effect-patterns remained essentially the same.
. However, this study effect must be considered to represent an outlier, as described above. This interpretation is consistent with ourThird, it is concerning that the majority of primary data or even mere summary statistics that document the Mozart effect were unavailable even upon request from the authors. All but one of the studies that had been excluded due to insufficient availability of data had reported a positive specific Mozart effect in their respective publications.
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