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Orchestra in Class, a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children
Led by School of Health Sciences Geneva · Updated on 2023-12-18
150
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
175 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
S
School of Health Sciences Geneva
Lead Sponsor
U
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Orchestra in Class, a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Children in 3rd or 4th year of elementary school (ages 6-8)
- Right-handed children
- Sufficient mastery of the French language
- Child able to give oral informed consent
- Parent able to give written informed consent
You will not qualify if you...
- Non-consent by child or parent
- Child has repeated or skipped a class compared to standard curriculum
- Severe or uncorrected hearing deficits
- Severe or uncorrected vision deficits
- Severe neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., severe dyslexia, severe ADHD)
- Child older than 7 at start of school year if in 3rd year
- Child older than 8 at start of school year if in 4th year
- Formal music instrumental practice in the past year
- Formal visual arts courses in the past year
- MRI incompatibility due to physical or psychological reasons
- Psychological incompatibility with psychometric testing
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Haute école de santé de Genève HES-SO
Geneva, Switzerland, 1206
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
C
Clara E James, PhD
CONTACT
Y
Yohan Van De Looij, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
OTHER
Number of Arms
3
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