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Changes in the wellbeing of children starting to learn to play musical instruments.
Rose, Dawn C.; Heaton, Pamela; Jones Bartoli, Alice (2015-03-30)Learning a musical instrument can be considered a 'superskill' associated with meta-plasticity in the brain (Stewart, 2008). Evidence shows neural structural adaptation after 15 months of musical training (Hyde et al., ... -
Color obsessions and phobias in autism spectrum disorders : the case of J.G
Ludlow, Amanda; Heaton, Pamela; Hill, Elisabeth; Franklin, Anna (2014-05-04)The current study is the first investigation of color 'obsessions' and 'phobias' in ASD. We investigate the color perception and cognition of J.G., a boy with ASD who has a strong obsession with blue, and a strong phobia ... -
Decoding actions and emotions in deaf children: Evidence from a biological motion task
Ludlow, Amanda; Heaton, Pamela; Deruelle, Christine (2012-07-31)This study aimed to explore the recognition of emotional and non-emotional biological movements in children with severe and profound deafness. Twenty-four deaf children, together with 24 control children matched on mental ... -
Formal-informal musical learning, sex and musicians’ personalities
Rose, Dawn C.; Jones Bartoli, Alice; Heaton, Pamela (2018-07-14)Research has suggested that differences in personality traits among western musicians, in comparison to the general population, may be related to gender. For example, studies suggest male classical musicians are more ... -
Learning a musical instrument can benefit a child with special educational needs
Rose, Dawn C.; Jones Bartoli, Alice; Heaton, Pamela (2018-06-30)This study explores outcomes related to musical learning in a child with complex special educational needs. CB is a boy who was 8 years old at the start of the study and was diagnosed with comorbid autism spectrum disorder, ... -
Measuring the impact of musical learning on cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional wellbeing development in children.
Rose, Dawn C.; Jones Bartoli, Alice; Heaton, Pamela (2017-12-13)This study investigated the effects of musical instrument learning on the concomitant development of cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional skills in 38 seven to nine year old children. Pre/post measures of intelligence, ... -
Music in our minds and bodies matters.
Rose, Dawn C.; Heaton, Pamela; Jones Bartoli, Alice (2017-06-01)This paper aims to convey an introduction to the psychology of music. At a very basic level, sound informs our model of the world, aiding survival. Musical sound and practice further offers a merging of exogenous and ... -
A study of cognitive and behavioural transfer effects associated with children learning to play musical instruments for the first time over one academic year.
Rose, Dawn C.; Jones Bartoli, Alice; Heaton, Pamela (2015-10-08)Interest in studies investigating the indirect effect of music education, evaluated theoretically as ‘transfer effects’ (Barnett & Ceci, 2002) has been re-energised by the recent changes in policy that require musical ... -
Superior discrimination of speech pitch and its relationship to verbal ability in autism spectrum disorders
Heaton, Pamela; Hudry, Kristelle; Ludlow, Amanda; Hill, Elizabeth (2008-09)Whilst hypersensitivity to pitch information appears to be characteristic of many individuals with autism spectrum disorders little is known about the implications of such a tendency for language acquisition and development. ... -
When less is more: Poor discrimination but good colour memory in autism
Heaton, Pamela; Ludlow, Amanda; Roberson, Debi (2007-06-05)In two experiments children with autism and two groups of controls matched for either chronological or non-verbal mental age were tested on tasks of colour discrimination and memory. The results from experiment 1 showed ...