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Alvin Chase Kimberly King Ansu Baysah
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Advancing
Knowledge
Audio
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Mozart Effect
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• 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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Products Currently Available
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Spinoza Talking Teddy Bear
Baby Mozart DVD
Lovely Baby CD Music CD
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Why Not Get A Head Start?
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Why Not Introduce Audio Stimulation At An Earlier
Age?
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Fetal Hearing
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27 Weeks 100-500 Hz
23 Weeks 500 Hz
31 Weeks 1000-3000 Hz
24 Weeks
Human Frequency Range 20-20,000 Hz
9 Weeks
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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Sheep Experiments
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• Sheep vs. Human Hearing

• Low vs. High Frequency Sound

• Attenuation Results

• 5 dB

• 20 dB to 30 dB

• 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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Introducing
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Womb-Woofer TM

Prenatal Audio System
Custom-built iPod Pocket
Portable with Full Range of Motion
Advanced Back Support Technology
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Design Process
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Sennheiser HD 280 Pro Headphones
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Pilates Experiment 1
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Home Depot Harness
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Boosteroo Amplifier
Final Product
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Brainstorming
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Pilates Experiment 2
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Test Results Experimental Setup
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Test Apparatus
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Test Results Sound Recordings
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Experiment 2 Womb-Woofer
Computer Music No Water
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Experiment 1 Computer Speakers No
Water Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Experiment 1 Computer Speakers W/
Water Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Experiment 2 Womb-Woofer iPod Music
No Water Mozart
Experiment 2 Womb-Woofer iPod Music
W/ Water Mozart
Experiment 2 Womb-Woofer Computer Music
W/ Water Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
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Test Results Frequency Responses
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Experiment 1 Computer Speakers No
Water Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Experiment 1 Computer Speakers W/
Water Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
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Test Results Frequency Responses
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Experiment 2 Womb-Woofer
Computer Music No Water
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Experiment 2 Womb-Woofer Computer Music
W/ Water Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
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Test Results Frequency Responses
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Experiment 2 Womb-Woofer iPod Music
No Water Mozart
Experiment 2 Womb-Woofer iPod Music
W/ Water Mozart
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Critiques
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Theres no defended research anywhere that shows
any enduring effect from stimulationsNo 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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Womb-Woofer TM
Ultrasound vs.
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Ultrasound

• Frequency Range From 2 13 GHz
• Hundreds Of Times Above Audible Human Level
• Used To Visualize Muscles, Internal Organs And
  Fetus During Pregnancies

Womb-Woofer TM

• Frequency Range From 20 5000 Hz
• Covers Major Portion Of Human Audible Experience
• Used To Enhance Intelligence In Prenatal Humans

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Safety
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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

Range Exposed Levels
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Source Fetal Psychology, Janet L. Hopson,
Psychology Today, October 1998
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Womb-Woofer TM

Demonstration
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Questions???
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