Alfred A. Tomatis (1920-2001) was one of the first educational researchers to be interested in the “Mozart effect." Tomatis used the phrase to describe the increase in intellectual ability that supposedly occurs when children listen to the music of eighteenth-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Although for a while now, the media has celebrated the Mozart a that there Effect as if it were proven fact, there is little hard evidence it exists. The idea really was such thing as a Mozart Effect originated with physicist Gordon Shaw and a the University of learning researcher Frances Rauscher. with students from Working California at Irvine, Rauscher and Shaw played Mozart to a few dozen subjects. Then they administered intelligence tests. The tests suggested a temporary increase in I.Q., which was attributed to the music listened before testing. As a result of their work, Shaw and Rauscher have become famous. They are so well-known that they have founded their own institute, the Music Intelligence Neural Development Institute. The media, quick to never the examine the scientific evidence for sensational claims, has made it seem as if belief in one Mozart Effect is widely shared by the scientific community. It isn't. That's because no one has ever been able to repeat Shaw and Rauscher's results.