Orchestra in Class, a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children
School of Health Sciences Geneva
150 participants
Dec 18, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
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.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria5
- School grade 3P/4P (3rd and 4th year of elementary school (6-8-year-old children)
- Right-handedness
- Sufficient Mastery of the French Language
- Able to give oral informed consent (child)
- Able to give written informed consent (parent)
Exclusion Criteria11
- Non-consent (children and or parents)
- Repeated or skipped a class with respect to standard curriculum
- Not corrected/severe hearing deficits
- Not corrected/severe vision deficits
- Severe neurodevelopmental disorders (eg. severe dyslexia, severe ADHD)
- Older than 7 at the beginning of the school year if 3P
- Older than 8 at the beginning of the school year if 4P
- Protocolled music instrumental practice in the preceding year
- Protocolled visual arts courses in the preceding year
- MRI incompatibility (physical or psychological)
- Psychometric battery incompatibility (psychological)
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NCT05912270