Music Training and Brain Development: An Innovative Community-Academic Partnership

Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Webinar: 

This webinar featured Assal Habibi, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California and Elsje Kibler-Vermaas, VP of Learning at the LA Philharmonic as they discussed their partnership with the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra (YOLA) to study the effects of music training on brain development.

Journal Club:

We discussed a publication by this month's webinar panelist Dr. Assal Habibi on music training and child development. Journal article and slides are linked below:

Habibi, A., Damasio, A., Ilari, A., Sachs, M., & Damasio, H. (2018). Music Training and Child Development – A Longitudinal Study. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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