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Imagining New Ways to Use Music in Education and Health
Pages 13-16

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... Studies have shown that this kind of collective behavior activates neural networks associated with social and emotional processing and cognition, correlated with positive behaviors and group cohesion. In young children, for example, rhythmic playing and singing are associated with a significant increase in spontaneous helping and cooperative problem solving.
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... The team focused on adaptive metronomes because they have been used in previous studies of synchrony and cooperatively, both for functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and in educational therapies. Interacting with the metronome as an adaptive "virtual partner" has been shown to improve attention and motor control and to reduce aggression in children with attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, for example.
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... A Question of Philosophy The team defined its goals and zeroed in on the adaptive metronome as an appropriate tool particularly because it can be useful to a large number of people who might benefit from technologically-mediated music-making as an explicit tool for social cohesion, not a replacement for music training. Rudimentary, musical engagement would allow anyone to participate.
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