Overview
The pilot study was conducted with children between the ages of 7 and 12. At the Museum School, a San Diego City School District Charter School. Eighty-five children were recorded playing specially designed pitched-percussion instruments in like-aged groups of 10-12. Each child’s ability to maintain synchrony with his/her group was measured and compared against their performance on computerized psychometric tests of attention and their teacher-assigned rating on the Swan Scale of attention.

The goal of this effort was to ascertain whether a correlation exists between poor ability to synchronize and the attentional measures described above. Presented next are the results and analysis of results only for the elementary-age subjects.

Videos
Please click here to view video interviews about the project.