Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the effects of
the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice and policy activities in …

An extensive literature has investigated the impact of musical training on cognitive skills and
academic achievement in children and adolescents. However, most of the studies have …

Music training has repeatedly been claimed to positively impact children's cognitive skills
and academic achievement (literacy and mathematics). This claim relies on the assumption …

It is often claimed that music training improves auditory and linguistic skills. Results of
individual studies are mixed, however, and most evidence is correlational, precluding …

Musical training is associated with a myriad of neuroplastic changes in the brain, including
more robust and efficient neural processing of clean and degraded speech signals at …

Studies in the neuroscience of music gained momentum in the 1990s as an integrated part
of the well-controlled experimental research tradition. However, during the past two …

Abstract Event-related potentials (ERPs), specifically the Mismatch Response (MMR), holds
promise for investigating auditory maturation in children. It has the potential to predict …

Although music has been utilized as a therapeutic tool for children with cognitive
impairments, how it improves children's cognitive function remains poorly understood. As a …

Music training programs have been shown to enhance executive functions in aging adults;
however, little is known regarding the extent to which different types of bimanual …

This study aimed at evaluating the impact of a classic music training program (Démos) on
several aspects of the cognitive development of children from low socio-economic …