When the music's over. Does music skill transfer to children's and young adolescents' cognitive and academic skills? A meta-analysis

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• C35 Music lessons and school results backs it up

  Full text: 38 studies, 118 effect sizes, 3,085 children and young adolescents; overall d = 0.16; against active controls d = 0.03 (CI −0.07 to 0.12, k = 54); randomised with active controls about zero (k = 22, p = .113); larger effects only in non-randomised, passive-control studies (d = 0.33). Same authors and overlapping studies as Sala & Gobet 2020 (EXP-007), so not independent support.