Music Lessons Enhance IQ

Which beliefs it touches

• C35 Music lessons and school results pushes against it

  Abstract: 144 children randomised to keyboard, voice, drama or no lessons; the music groups gained more full-scale IQ than the controls (drama and no lessons together), "relatively small" but generalising to subtests, index scores and a standardised academic achievement measure. No effect size in the abstract; the control groups are pooled, so the drama-only (active) comparison is not separated. Already included in Sala & Gobet 2017 and later metas. Closed.