Does musical training improve school performance?

Instructional Science

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 365-374

  Wetter, Olive Emil ^a,b   Koerner, Fritz ^c   Schwaninger, Adrian ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Clinic Siloah ^*  (Switzerland)

^c Clinic Siloah   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grade; Grades; Mark; Marks; Music; Musical training; School performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650664272     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-008-9052-y     Document Type: Article

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