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Alvin Chase Kimberly King Ansu Baysah
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Mozart Effect
• Intelligence Increases For Children Under Age 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• First Experiment Performed In 1993 By Irvine
Physicist Gordon Shaw And Frances Rauscher
• College Students Increased Their Spatial-temporal
Reasoning By 8 -9 Points
University of California
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Baby Mozart
DVD
Products Currently Available
Lovely Baby CD
Music CD
Spinoza
Talking Teddy Bear
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Why Not Get A Head Start?
Why Not Introduce Audio Stimulation At An Earlier Age?
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Fetal Hearing
27 Weeks
100-500 Hz
23 Weeks
500 Hz
31 Weeks
1000-3000 Hz
24 Weeks
9 Weeks
Human Frequency Range:
20-20,000 Hz
32 Weeks
Source: “Fetal Psychology”, Janet L. Hopson, Psychology Today, October 1998
Source: “Music During Pregnancy”, B. Arabin, Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2002
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Introducing…
Womb-Woofer TM
DRAWING OF
PRODUCT
Prenatal
Audio
System
Custombuilt iPod
“Pocket”
DIGITAL PIC OF
PRODUCT
Portable with
Full Range of
Motion
Advanced Back
Support
Technology
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Sheep Experiments
• Sheep vs. Human Hearing
• Low vs. High Frequency Sound
• Attenuation Results:
• 5 dB <1.0 kHz
• 20 dB to 30 dB < 4.0 kHz
• 6 dB/octave for 0.5 – 4.0 kHz
• 10 to 15 dB for 0.125 – 0.25 kHz
• 45 dB for 0.5 – 2.0 kHz
Source: Effects of Intense Noise Exposure on Fetal Sheep Auditory Brain Stem Response and
Inner Ear Histology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc., Volume 20 (1), February 1999, pp 21-32
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Design Process
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Sennheiser
Headphones
Pilates
Experiment #1
Home Depot Harness
5
Boosteroo
Amplifier
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Brainstorming
6 Pilates Experiment #2
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Final
Product
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Test Results
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Ultrasound vs.
Womb-Woofer TM
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Safety Concerns
“There’s no defended research anywhere that shows any enduring
effect from stimulations…No one would consider poking a newborn
baby, so why would you do such a thing with a fetus?”– William Filer,
PhD, Columbia University
“Might be risky for hearing development and behavioral state
regulation in the unborn child.”– B. Arabin, Clara Angela
Foundation
“Stimulating the fetus might alter its developmental sequence,
and anything that affects the development of the brain comes at
a cost.” – Heidelise Als, PhD, Harvard Medical School
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Safety
Common Belief: “Children are smarter, more verbally and
musically inclined, more physically coordinated and socially
adept than average when exposed to music.”
Dangerous Range: Exposed Levels 85 to 95 dB
Safe Range: Exposed Levels < 85 dB
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Range: Exposed Levels ## dB to ## dB
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Demonstration
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Questions???
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