{"pk":28589,"title":"Elvis Has Left the Building: Correlational but Not Causal Relationship betweenMusic Skill and Cognitive and Academic Ability","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Music training is commonly thought to have a positive impacton children’s cognitive skills and academic achievement. Thisbelief relies on the idea that engaging in an intellectuallydemanding activity helps to foster overall cognitive function.We here present a meta-analysis of music-intervention studiesin children (N = 3,780, k = 204, m = 43). Consistent with thesubstantial findings in the field of cognitive training, the overalleffect size was small (","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"music; cognitive training; meta-analysis; transferof skills."}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3vw1k3tr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Giovanni","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sala","name_suffix":"","institution":"Osaka University","department":""},{"first_name":"Fernand","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gobet","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Liverpool","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28589/galley/18460/download/"}]}