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Orchestra in Class, a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children

NCT05912270 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2023-12-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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

  • Development, Child
  • Executive Functions
  • Interventions
  • Music
  • Arts
  • Brain Plasticity
  • Behavior
  • Brain Imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Structural Brain Connectivity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Orchestra in Class

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Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Geneva, Switzerland

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Lausanne Hospitals

    collaborator OTHER

  • School of Health Sciences Geneva

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Clara James, PhD · HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
8 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-12-18
Primary Completion
2026-03-31
Completion
2027-04-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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