Orchestra in Class, a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Development, Child
Executive Functions
Interventions
Music
Arts
Brain Plasticity
Behavior
Brain Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Structural Brain Connectivity
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
At a Glance
- Age
- 6 – 8
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Other
- Participants needed
- 150 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- School of Health Sciences Geneva · Other
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About This Trial
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 train…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* 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 Criteria:
* Non-consent (c…
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