Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

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 (