It's a bit dry, but this is a video that describes the Mozart Effect. In short, it's the idea that Mozart's music might make you smarter. Here's two more links on the topic:

One from Indiana University

And from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

The most interesting thing I think can come out of the entire debate is the idea that there actually is music that works similar to Mozart; the music of Yanni. It has to do, apparently, with the way the music is organized, even though I'm not sure if that relates to the specific form or just the harmonies.

If you wanted to try this yourself, I suppose you could always play some Mozart, try an online IQ test, then try it the next week without the music and compare the results, but that wouldn't make for a very good control, would it? Your results would be pretty imperfect. Unless you have access to hundreds of research subjects, you might just have to be okay with reading about this one on the Internet.

I found this video on YouTube if you're really jonesing for some Mozart right now:



"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Mozart ... "