One paper, published in 2018, claimed that an Asian shrub known as the telegraph plant grew substantially larger leaves when exposed to 56 days of Buddhist chants--but not if it was exposed to Western pop music, or silence.

2018 年发表的一篇论文声称，一种被称为电报植物的亚洲灌木在暴露于 56 天的佛教颂歌中时，叶子会长出明显更大的叶子，但如果暴露在西方流行音乐或沉默中，叶子就不会长得更大。