Trial reportPloS one2019
Music training with Démos program positively influences cognitive functions in children from low socio-economic backgrounds.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cognitive and academic benefits of music training with children: A multilevel meta-analysis.Memory & cognition · 2020Pooled it
- A Pilot Study Examining the Effects of Music Training on Attention in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Trial
- The associations between playing a musical instrument and grey matter in older adults at risk for dementia: a whole-brain VBM analysis.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Impact of Education and Music Training on the Development of Abstract Thinking in the First Years of Schooling.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- Never too late to start musical instrument training: Effects on working memory and subcortical preservation in healthy older adults across 4 years.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Impact of Daily Choral Singing and Creative Writing Activities on the Cognitive Development of Second-, Third-, and Fourth-Grade French Children from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effects of Near-Infrared Pulsed Light on the Attention of Human Beings Using Electroencephalography.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effects of a 10-week musical instrument training on cognitive function in healthy older adults: implications for desirable tests and period of training.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Music and neuroscience research for mental health, cognition, and development: Ways forward.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Improvement of Attention in Elementary School Students through Fixation Focus Training Activity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- The Effect of Music Intervention on Attention in Children: Experimental Evidence.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Selectively Enhanced Development of Working Memory in Musically Trained Children and Adolescents.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
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 backgrounds. We were specifically interested in general intelligence, phonological awareness and reading abilities, and in other cognitive abilities that may be improved by music training such as auditory and visual attention, working and short-term memory and visuomotor precision. We used a longitudinal approach with children presented with standardized tests before the start and after 18 months of music training. To test for pre-to-post training improvements while discarding maturation and developmental effects, raw scores for each child and for each test were normalized relative to their age group. Results showed that Démos music training improved musicality scores, total IQ and Symbol Search scores as well as concentration abilities and reading precision. In line with previous results, these findings demonstrate the positive impact of an ecologically-valid music training program on the cognitive development of children from low socio-economic backgrounds and strongly encourage the broader implementation of such programs in disadvantaged school-settings.
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