[Conference] Music Training and Child Development | Beatriz Ilari | FIGG 2021

Beatriz Ilari, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA "Music Training and Child Development" "In this talk, I focus on the idea that learning music formally may transfer into other human activities. Many of us have heard, for example, that music education may assist in the development of mathematical or reading competencies in children. Yet, when we examine scientific literature on the topic, it becomes evident that the associations between music learning and child development are much more complex than most people appear to believe. The talk focuses on data collected for the purpose of a longitudinal study on music, brain and child development; a collaboration between researchers from the University of Southern California, the LA Philharmonic, the community organization Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) and the music program Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA). We followed three groups of same-aged children for five consecutive years: children in the music program, children involved in collective sports modalities, and a control group. All children were 6-7 years old in the beginning of the study. Here, I present and discuss data relative to five main areas: singing, vocal improvisation, rhythmic entrainment, socioemotional development and parents’ perceptions of children’s participation in music over the course of time. I also offer implications for music education and future research. " BIOGRAPHY Beatriz Ilari is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Southern California where she teaches graduate courses in music psychology, the sociology of music, and research methods. She has conducted extensive research with babies, preschoolers, and school-aged children from the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Japan, and Mexico. In her work, she uses a variety of approaches to study different aspects of musical development and growth of infants, children, and adolescents. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature. She collaborates with scholars from diverse fields, including neuroscientists from USC’s Brain & Creativity Institute, and psychologists and educators from the Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) team. She is currently the editor for Perspectives: Journal of the Early Childhood Music & Movement and Association (ECMMA), and serves on the boards of prestigious journals such as Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Musicae Scientiae, and Music & Science. Ver menos Artistic Director: Nuno Cachada This event was organized by Sociedade Musical de Guimarães. It is co-funded by the Municipality of Guimarães, EuroStrings and the Creative Europe Programme, from the European Union. #FIGG2021 #CreativeEuropeAtHome #BeatrizIlari #Eurostrings #SMG #FIGG #musicresearch #guimaraes #classicalguitar #CreativeEuropeAtHome