While brainstorming on our group research project last week, we came across the 'Mozart effect', which was a social hype in the '90s. In their 1993 article in Nature, Rausher, Shaw & Ky found that after listening to Mozart's sonatas, subjects experienced a temporary increase in spatial intelligence. This phenomenon was soon dubbed the Mozart effect and suddenly extended in potential, when it was claimed to increase IQ and “actually make you smarter” as New York Times columnist Alex Ross wrote in 1994. All of this when spatial intelligence is only one of Gardners seven intelligences and is limited to spatial reasoning and puzzle solving.