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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., ... -
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 ...