Cognitive and academic benefits of music training with children: A multilevel meta-analysis

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 that engaging in intellectually demanding activities fosters particular domain-general cognitive skills, or even genera...

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Published in:	Memory & cognition Vol. 48; no. 8; pp. 1429 - 1441
Main Authors:	Sala, Giovanni, Gobet, Fernand
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.11.2020 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Academic achievement Bayes Theorem Bayesian analysis Behavioral Science and Psychology Child Children Children & youth Cognition Cognition & reasoning Cognitive ability Cognitive enhancement Cognitive Psychology Cognitive skills Cognitive skills training Confirmatory bias Cross-Sectional Studies Educational programs Humans Intelligence Literacy Mathematics Memory Meta-analysis Music Musical performances Musicians & conductors Optimism Phonology Psychology Reading comprehension Skills Statistical analysis Systematic review Training Transfer Academic achievement Cognitive training Music Cognitive ability
ISSN:	0090-502X, 1532-5946, 1532-5946
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