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Effects of Certain Lateral Dominance Traits, Music Aptitude, and Sex Differences with Instrumental Music Achievement
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The effects of music aptitude, sex, handedness, eyedness, and footedness on music achievement and executive skills of elementary instrumental music students was explored by as mentioned in this paper, where handedness was defined forAbstract:
The effects of music aptitude, sex, handedness, eyedness, and footedness on music achievement and executive skills of elementary instrumental music students was explored Handedness was defined forread more
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Gender in Secondary Music Education in British Columbia
TL;DR: This paper used responses to an open-ended questionnaire to interpret music teachers' perceptions about boys' and girls' achievements in music classes compared to their results on the General Certificate of Secondary Education examinations (GCSE) in music.
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Nature or Nurture? A Re-examination of Sloboda and Howe's (1991) Interview Study on Talent Development in Music:
TL;DR: The core of this text will consist of a re-examination of data gathered by Sloboda and Howe (1991) through interviews with young students in a specialist music school as mentioned in this paper.
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The Impact and Local Implementation of Standards-based Music Curriculum Policy Frameworks and Music Education Programs for Students with Disabilities and Impairments in Victoria: A Qualitative Evaluation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on aspects of recently completed Doctor of Philosophy research at The University of Melbourne that was in response to national, state and local curriculum issues and develop an improved understanding of the extraordinary complexities that encompass standards-based music curriculum policy frameworks for these students in the State of Victoria.
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Four meta-analyses across 164 studies on atypical footedness prevalence and its relation to handedness.
Julian Packheiser,Judith Schmitz,Gessa Berretz,David P. Carey,Silvia Paracchini,Marietta Papadatou-Pastou,Sebastian Ocklenburg,Sebastian Ocklenburg +7 more
TL;DR: It was showed that the prevalence of atypical footedness ranges between 12.10% using the most conservative criterion of left-footedness to 23.7% including all left- and mixed-footers as a single non-right category, and that footing is a valuable phenotype for the study of lateral motor biases, its underlying genetics and neurodevelopment.
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Is eye dominance a part of generalized laterality
Clare Porac,Stanley Coren +1 more
TL;DR: Sex differences emerge indicating more consistent eye and limb preferences as well as stronger eye dominance scores in male subjects as measured in 160 observers using a graded index.