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2024-05-06 @ 7:09 PM
Last Modification Date:
2024-10-26 @ 3:01 PM
Study NCT ID:
NCT05912270
Status:
RECRUITING
Last Update Posted:
2023-12-18
First Post:
2023-05-30
Brief Title:
Orchestra in Class a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children
Sponsor:
School of Health Sciences Geneva
Organization:
School of Health Sciences Geneva
Study Overview
Official Title:
Orchestra in Class a Novel Booster for Executive Functions and Brain Development in Young Primary School Children
Status:
RECRUITING
Status Verified Date:
2023-12
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
ORBIT
Brief 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 childrens 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
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 childrens 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
Detailed Description:
This cognitive neuroscience study employing a randomized controlled trial RCT aims to investigate the potential cognitive and brain development benefits in young school children from two-year interventions Orchestra in Class OC music practice experimental group compared with Visual Arts VA second experimental group versus Standard Education active control group CG The CG will be offered six cultural outings per year concerts museums theatres etc Both nonverbal art interventions will be given weekly interventions for 1 hour and 30 minutes in school class sized groups The VA groups serve to control for the influences of regular stimulating group interventions and homework and also to compare specific effects in visual mode with the auditory mode in OC The CG controls for overall child development and test-retest effects
We plan to recruit 150 children aged 6-8 years from public elementary schools ensuring a random and therefore equal distribution among the three groups Data collection will involve annual comprehensive psychometric testing baseline after 1 year after 2 years of executive functions ie far transfer and near transfer musicality drawing academic achievement and multimodal structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI including fMRI with auditory and visual domain working memory tasks
By utilizing multivariate analyses and integrating behavioral and brain data through machine learning we aim to create a data-driven model of the development of executive functions at the behavioral and brain levels in young children at the beginning of their school careers 6 to 8 years old both without and with an enriched environment musical practice versus visual arts
We plan to recruit 150 children aged 6-8 years from public elementary schools ensuring a random and therefore equal distribution among the three groups Data collection will involve annual comprehensive psychometric testing baseline after 1 year after 2 years of executive functions ie far transfer and near transfer musicality drawing academic achievement and multimodal structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI including fMRI with auditory and visual domain working memory tasks
By utilizing multivariate analyses and integrating behavioral and brain data through machine learning we aim to create a data-driven model of the development of executive functions at the behavioral and brain levels in young children at the beginning of their school careers 6 to 8 years old both without and with an enriched environment musical practice versus visual arts
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
False
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:
None