ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015
Predicting who takes music lessons: parent and child characteristics.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- The Relationship between Formal Music Training and Conflict Control: An ERP Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Can musical ability be tested online?Behavior research methods · 2022Article
- Learning to play a musical instrument in the middle school is associated with superior audiovisual working memory and fluid intelligence: A cross-sectional behavioral study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Musical instrument engagement in adolescence predicts verbal ability 4 years later: A twin and adoption study.Developmental psychology · 2021Article
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- The Edinburgh Lifetime Musical Experience Questionnaire (ELMEQ): Responses and non-musical correlates in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.PloS one · 2021Article
- Musical training mediates the relation between working memory capacity and preference for musical complexity.Memory & cognition · 2020Article
- Music Lessons and Cognitive Abilities in Children: How Far Transfer Could Be Possible.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Formal String Instrument Training in a Class Setting Enhances Cognitive and Sensorimotor Development of Primary School Children.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- On the Association Between Musical Training, Intelligence and Executive Functions in Adulthood.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Beatboxers and Guitarists Engage Sensorimotor Regions Selectively When Listening to the Instruments They can Play.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2018Article
- Evaluating predisposition and training in shaping the musician's brain: the need for a developmental perspective.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2018Article
- Rhythm and Melody Tasks for School-Aged Children With and Without Musical Training: Age-Equivalent Scores and Reliability.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Musical competence and phoneme perception in a foreign language.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Article
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Abstract
Studies on associations between music training and cognitive abilities typically focus on the possible benefits of music lessons. Recent research suggests, however, that many of these associations stem from niche-picking tendencies, which lead certain individuals to be more likely than others to take music lessons, especially for long durations. Because the initial decision to take music lessons is made primarily by a child's parents, at least at younger ages, we asked whether individual differences in parents' personality predict young children's duration of training. Children between 7 and 9 years of age (N = 170) with varying amounts of music training completed a measure of IQ. Their parents provided demographic information as well as ratings of their own and their child's Big Five personality dimensions. Children's personality traits predicted duration of music training even when demographic variables and intelligence were held constant, replicating findings reported previously with 10- to 12-year-olds and 17-year-olds. A novel finding was that parents' openness-to-experience predicted children's duration of training, even when characteristics that pertained to children (demographic variables, intelligence, and personality) were controlled statistically. Our findings are indicative of passive and active gene-environment correlations, whereby genetic predispositions influence the likelihood that a child will have certain experiences, such as music training.
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