Cognitive effects of numeracy musical training in Brazilian preschool children: A prospective pilot study
| Autor: | Mayara Dos Santos Baldin, Flávia Heloísa dos Santos, Eder Ricardo da Silva |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cognitive effects
Musical training Preschoolers General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Cognition Musical Training (civil) 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Transfer 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Numeracy 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Scopus Repositório Institucional da UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) instacron:UNESP |
| ISSN: | 1983-3288 1984-3054 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/pne0000098 |
| Popis: | Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:07:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-09-01 Musical training has been shown to have beneficial effects on several human cognitive functions, including cognition, spoken language, socialization, and logical-mathematical thinking. Evidence also shows that musical training boosts several cognitive skills in children. However, few studies have focused on its effects for numerical cognition in preschoolers. We developed a brief unedited numeracy musical training (NMT) program that was tested in a pseudorandomized, blinded, prospective study. The participants included 40 preschoolers (5 years old) with typical development from the countryside of São Paulo state, Brazil. The sample was divided into 2 gender-balanced groups: An experimental group (EG; n = 20) that underwent 8 NMT sessions and a control group (CG; n = 20) that did not receive NMT. All of the participants were assessed at 2 time points by applying instruments related to the following domains: Abstract reasoning, verbal and visuospatial working memory, and numeracy. Only the EG presented improvements in 2 cognitive domains in the second assessment. Our findings need to be replicated, but they provide preliminary evidence that NMT may boost numerical cognition and working memory in preschoolers. Program in Psychology of Development and Learning São Paulo State University Pos-graduacao Do Hospital de Reabilitacao de Anomalias Craniofaciais da Universidade de São Paulo Program in Psychology of Development and Learning São Paulo State University University of Minho., 14-01 Engenheiro Luiz Edmundo Carrijo Coube Avenue Program in Psychology of Development and Learning São Paulo State University Program in Psychology of Development and Learning São Paulo State University University of Minho., 14-01 Engenheiro Luiz Edmundo Carrijo Coube Avenue |
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