Several studies comparing adult musicians and nonmusicians have shown that music training is associated with structural brain differences. It not been established, however, whether such differences result from pre-existing biological traits, lengthy musical training, or an interaction of the two factors, if comparable changes can be found in children undergoing training. As part ongoing longitudinal study, we investigated effects on developmental trajectory children's structure, over years,...

Although teachers work constantly with parents, discussions concerning parental roles in children’s music learning are often left at the margins teacher training programs. The aim of this article is to offer a review musical parenting research from an ecological perspective. Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory human development used as lens examine infants, school-aged children, and adolescents. Issues pertaining contemporary Western world such intensive concerted cultivation also...

Developmental research in music has typically centered on the study of single musical skills (e.g., singing, listening) and been conducted with middle class children who learn schools conservatories. Information development from different social strata, are enrolled community-based programs, remains elusive. This examined underprivileged were attending an El Sistema-inspired program Los Angeles. We investigated how children, predominantly Latino ethnicity, developed musically respect to...

Inhibitory control, the ability to suppress an immediate dominant response, has been shown predict academic and career success, socioemotional wellbeing, wealth, physical health. Learning play a musical instrument engages various sensorimotor processes draws on cognitive capacities including inhibition task switching. While music training benefit language skills, its impact inhibitory control remains inconclusive. As part of ongoing 5-year longitudinal study, we investigated effects...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt our lives in unimagined ways, families are reinventing daily rituals, and this is likely true for musical rituals. This study explored how parents with young children used recorded music their everyday during pandemic. Mothers ( N = 19) of child(ren) aged 18 months 5 years living United States played role home DJ over a period one week by strategically crafting sonic environment, based on resources provided authors, response children’s mood...

This position paper aims to raise awareness among educational policymakers, teacher educators, and school leaders around the world about urgent need better prepare Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers in music education. Most countries fail sufficiently train meet music-related expectations of contemporary ECE curricula, which inevitably affects young children's learning development. Our first goal is describe this worrisome reality depth, based on prior literature. We elaborate limited...

The aim of this study was to investigate maternal beliefs and uses music with infants. One hundred mothers infants aged between seven nine months age were recruited in Montréal, Canada. Mothers interviewed on musical background, preferences, their results suggested that, despite changes life styles due modernization, still use infants, singing remains the primary activity mother–infant dyads. Maternal occupation previous experiences, including ensemble found be determinant mothers’ babies....

As a core feature of musical rituals around the world, humans synchronize their movements to pulse shared acoustic pattern—a behavior called rhythmic entrainment. The purpose present study was (a) examine development entrainment with focus on role experience and (b) follow one line evidence concerning its adaptive function. We hypothesized that children learn how sound during social interactions, where they this as convention surrounding culture’s practice, has an value by allowing several...

Several studies comparing adult musicians and non-musicians have provided compelling evidence for functional anatomical differences in the brain systems engaged by musical training. It is not known, however, whether those result from long-term training or pre-existing traits favoring musicality. In an attempt to begin addressing this question, we launched a longitudinal investigation of effects childhood music on cognitive, social neural development. We compared group 6- 7-year old children...

Two assumptions that underlie much research in early childhood music education are is a social endeavor and musical participation beneficial to children’s overall development. As members of cultural groups, young children engage with multitude ways different companions. This article examines engagement from perspective, integrating wide range fields theoretical orientations. The first section brings forward discussion on the nature interactions an emphasis three building blocks cognition...

In this study, we tracked the development of rhythmic entrainment, prosociality, and theory mind skills in children attending music sports programs a control group over course three years. Forty-five (mean age at onset = 81 months) drummed two contextual conditions – alone social completed Reading Mind Eyes test prosocial tasks (helping sharing). All improved their ability to entrain external rhythms time, with outperforming controls entrainment-social condition. Developmental effects were...

This article explores the relationship between singing and cultural understanding. Singing emerges in infancy develops through processes of enculturation socialization. When we sing songs from diverse cultures, are granted with opportunities to learn about cultures others, gain a better understanding our own. Thus, different may play important roles construction identities how perceive understand ultimately ourselves. Cultural understanding, however, is complex nature multi-layered. Even if...

The purpose of this study was to investigate musical parenting infants and toddlers in Brazil. Forty-three Brazilian mothers were interviewed on experience preferences, beliefs uses music with their children. Results suggest that appear be caught between two main forces: the natural humanurge interact, communicate bondwithyoung children need conform social norms including those concerning consumer behaviours. These results mirror found industrialised countries, notion middle-class as a...

Abstract In this article, we report on parental perceptions of socio-emotional skills and personality children who were involved in community-based music sports extracurricular (EC) programmes, a group not participating EC activities. This study is part the USC brain project that investigated effects education cognitive socioemotional development from underserved neighbourhoods Los Angeles for 5 consecutive years. Our primary aim with was to examine views potential programmes children’s...

The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend previous findings on spontaneous movement rhythmic engagement with music in infancy. Using the identical stimuli procedures from original study, I investigated movements response music, infant-directed speech, contrasting patterns 30 Brazilian infants (ages 5, 11, 19 months). Findings were consistent that more found metrically regular than speech. babies, however, showed higher means for those reported study. Consistent developmental...

ABSTRACT Challenges associated with recruitment and retention of participants from underprivileged social communities, in addition to neuroscience researchers' unfamiliarity these possibly explain the limited number individuals communities who participate research studies. The consequence is a scarcity data this fast‐growing segment population. In particular, developmental involving children ethnic minorities has yet catch up studies available for middle‐class White (Flores et al., 2002)....

The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions parenting and parent-child activities in American families with children aged 0–16 after social distance measures were put place. Through an online questionnaire, we examined the extent which parental role, age, education, work productivity impacted parent six categories (positive parenting, inconsistent discipline, positive relationships, emotions, self-efficacy, routine management) during initial months pandemic. We also children's...

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume I: Development</em> introduces the many voices necessary better understand act of singing—a complex human behaviour that emerges without deliberate training. Presenting research from social sciences and humanities alongside natural medicine alike, this companion explores relationship between hearing sensitivity vocal production, turn identifying how singing is integrated with sensory cognitive...

The question guiding this study is: how can participation in the Guri Santa Marcelina Program affect development of social skills, cognitive abilities and brain structure children aged between 6 7? Among observational studies used health area, quasi-experimental design verifies causal relationship exposure to a situation prognosis an outcome. It has been widely research situations where conducting randomized control would be unethical. This will here for reasons inherent process enrolling...

Caregivers and early childhood teachers all over the world use singing speech to elicit maintain infants’ attention. Research comparing preferential attention music is inconclusive regarding their responses these two types of auditory stimuli, with one study showing a bias another indicating no differential The purpose this investigation was 11-month-old spoken sung renditions an unfamiliar folk song in foreign language ( n = 24). results infant-controlled preference procedure showed...

Concerted cultivation has been described as a common, urban middle-class practice concerning the enrollment of children in variety age-specific activities that may promote learning valuable life skills well development individual abilities (Lareau, 2003). Music is one such activity. This study investigated relationship between children’s participation organized musical and concerted discourses parents, who took part MyPlace, MyMusic Research Project. collaborative project home experiences...

Collective music making has been associated with the emergence of prosocial behaviors in children and adults. Yet, associations between participation early childhood education programs skills young remain elusive. The purpose this exploratory study was to examine how varied amounts participation—in a formal program home—performed two tasks (i.e., instrumental helping sharing) their parents rated tendencies interests for music. Thirty-six (ages 3 4 years) an completed sharing. Results...

Based on a comprehensive analysis of 39 studies published in academic journals the past decade (2010–2020), this article discusses strengths current research and challenges that lie ahead for researchers interested conducting longitudinal music education child development. Among reviewed are multi-year projects, diverse study samples programs, wide range areas interest—cognitive neural to socioemotional musical Challenges future described relation three main perspectives. The methodological,...