The Effect of Music Intervention on Attention in Children: Experimental Evidence
The Effect of Music Intervention on Attention in Children: Experimental Evidence
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DOI：
10.3389/fnins.2020.00757
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发表时间：
2020-07-24
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Toichi, Motomi
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作者：
Kasuya-Ueba, Yuka;Zhao, Shuo;Toichi, Motomi
虽然音乐已被用作认知障碍儿童的治疗工具，但它如何改善儿童的认知功能仍然知之甚少。作为理解音乐有效性的第一步，并作为评估认知功能改善的一种手段，我们专注于注意力，这在认知发展中起着重要作用，并检查了音乐干预对儿童注意力的影响。35名6至9岁的儿童参加了这项研究，其中29名儿童的数据被纳入分析。一个单一的30分钟的互动音乐干预进行了比较，一个单一的30分钟的互动视频游戏的干预伴随着计算机生成的背景音乐，使用受试者内重复测量设计。每项干预措施都是单独实施的。参与者在两种干预措施之前和之后完成了标准化的注意力评估，即儿童日常注意力测试，以评估他们注意力技能的变化。结果表明，在控制儿童的智力后，音乐干预后注意力控制/转换有显着改善，而视频游戏干预后没有观察到这种变化。这项研究提供了第一个证据表明，音乐干预可能比视频游戏干预更有效地改善儿童的注意力控制，并进一步加深了我们对音乐干预对注意力控制问题儿童的重要性的理解。
Although music has been utilized as a therapeutic tool for children with cognitive impairments, how it improves children's cognitive function remains poorly understood. As a first step toward understanding music's effectiveness and as a means of assessing cognitive function improvement, we focused on attention, which plays an important role in cognitive development, and examined the effect of a music intervention on children's attention. Thirty-five children, aged 6 to 9 years, participated in this study, with data from 29 of the children being included in the analysis. A single 30-minute interactive music intervention was compared with a single 30-minute interactive video game intervention accompanied by computer-generated background music using a within-subjects repeated-measures design. Each intervention was implemented individually. Participants completed a standardized attention assessment, the Test of Everyday Attention for Children, before and after both interventions to assess changes in their attentional skills. The results indicated significant improvement in attention control/switching following the music intervention after controlling for the children's intellectual abilities, while no such changes were observed following the video game intervention. This study provides the first evidence that music interventions may be more effective than video game interventions to improve attention control in children, and furthers our understanding of the importance of music interventions for children with attention control problems.