Author: Margherita Malanchini, Reader in Psychology, Queen Mary University of London

peampath2812/Shutterstock Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is arguably the most celebrated child prodigy in history, composing his first pieces of music aged five, his first symphony at eight and his first opera at 11. After a study in 1993 found that listening to Mozart could improve spatial IQ – prompting headlines such as “Mozart makes your brain […]