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Determine whether a short-term, three-month orchestral music training program can enhance inhibitory control and reduce hyperactivity and impulsivity in school-age children.

April 3, 2019Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

Short-Term Orchestral Music Training Modulates Hyperactivity and Inhibitory Control in School-Age Children: A Longitudinal Behavioural Study

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MFMaria Celeste FasanoCentre for Human Genetics CSCristina SemeraroUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro RCRosalinda CassibbaUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro

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Longitudinal study shows that short orchestral music training improves inhibitory control in school-age children, suggesting brief musical interventions can mitigate hyperactivity.

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Determine whether a short-term, three-month orchestral music training program can enhance inhibitory control and reduce hyperactivity and impulsivity in school-age children.
Conducted a longitudinal study with 113 Italian children aged 8 to 10 years, comparing an intervention group against an untrained control group.
Assigned 55 children to 3 months of orchestral music training (one 2-hour weekly school lesson plus a final concert) and 58 children to a control group without training.
Evaluated inhibitory control and child- and teacher-reported hyperactivity using behavioral tests and questionnaires before and after the 3-month period.
Children in the music intervention demonstrated statistically significant improvements in inhibitory control from pre- to post-training.
Control group participants displayed an increase in self-reported hyperactivity at the post-test evaluation, an increase that was absent in the music training group.
Teacher ratings showed no significant changes in perceived hyperactivity across time points, revealing a divergence between observer ratings and child self-reports.

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Fasano et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1c22051567d2fc4d5fa4df https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00750

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Longitudinal study shows that short orchestral music training improves inhibitory control in school-age children, suggesting brief musical interventions can mitigate hyperactivity.

Short-Term Orchestral Music Training Modulates Hyperactivity and Inhibitory Control in School-Age Children: A Longitudinal Behavioural Study

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Short-Term Orchestral Music Training Modulates Hyperactivity and Inhibitory Control in School-Age Children: A Longitudinal Behavioural Study

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