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Orchestra in Class, a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children
Sponsor: School of Health Sciences Geneva
Summary
How to optimally stimulate the developing brain is still unclear. Executive functions (EF) exhibited substantially stronger far transfer effects in children who learned to play a musical instrument than in children who acquired other arts. What is crucially lacking is a large-scale, long-term genuine randomized controlled trial (RCT) in cognitive neuroscience, comparing musical instrumental training (MIP) to another art form and a control group. Collected data of this proposal will allow, using machine learning, to build a data-driven multivariate model of children's interconnected brain and EF development over the first 2 years of their academic curriculum (6-8 years), with or without music or other art training.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
6 Years - 8 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
150
Start Date
2023-12-18
Completion Date
2027-04-30
Last Updated
2023-12-18
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Orchestra in Class
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Locations (1)
Haute école de santé de Genève HES-SO
Geneva, Switzerland