Friday, January 2, 2026

Early music training proven to increase empathy, social, cognitive control, and verbal skills: Assal Habibi

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYR4Gz76Pl8

 Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Assal Habibi

Associate Research Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California
Verified email at usc.edu
Cited by 2575
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behavior in 4-year-old children.
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4. Habibi, A., Damasio, A., Ilari, B., Veiga, R., Joshi, A. A., Leahy, R. M., et al. 2018.
Childhood music training induces change in micro and macroscopic brain
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Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions checklist: explanation and elaboration guide

…, TL Golden, C Gold, JR Iversen, A Habibi… - Frontiers in …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Background Detailed intervention reporting is essential to interpretation, replication, and
eventual translation of Music-based Interventions (MBIs) into practice. Despite availability of …Save Cite Cited by 18 Related articles All 4 versions

Music‐based interventions in community settings: Navigating the tension between rigor and ecological validity

A Habibi, G Kreutz, F Russo… - Annals of the New York …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical research of community‐based music interventions has advanced to investigate
the individual, social, and educational implications of arts‐for‐wellbeing practices. Here, we …Save

Mind wandering during creative incubation predicts increases in creative performance in a writing task

C McDaniel, A Habibi, J Kaplan - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
Previous studies suggest that taking breaks from creative problem solving (ie, incubation
periods) enhances subsequent performance, possibly due to mind wandering during these …Save

Music‐Evoked Nostalgia Activates Default Mode and Reward Networks Across the Lifespan

…, P Janata, T Ginsberg, J Kaplan, A Habibi - Human brain …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Nostalgia is a mixed emotion that is often evoked by music. Nostalgic music may induce
temporary improvements in autobiographical memory in individuals with cognitive decline. …Save

Long-term music instruction is partially associated with the development of socioemotional skills

J Villanueva, B Ilari, A Habibi - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
This study aims to investigate the development of pitch-matching, rhythmic entrainment, and
socioemotional skills in children who received formal music instruction and other non-music …Save Cite Cited by 6 Related articles All 6 versions

Speech‐in‐noise perception in musicians and non‐musicians: a multi‐level meta-analysis

S Hennessy, WJ Mack, A Habibi - Hearing Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Speech-in-noise perception, the ability to hear a relevant voice within a noisy background,
is important for successful communication. Musicians have been reported to perform better …Save

Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Intervention: an update and validation study

…, M Belgrave, J Bradt, C Gold, A Habibi… - Frontiers in …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Background Detailed intervention reporting is essential to interpretation, replication, and
translation of music-based interventions (MBIs). The 2011 Reporting Guidelines for Music-…Save Cite Cited by 16 Related articles All 5 versions

Longitudinal Effects of Continuous Music Training on Cognitive Development: Evidence From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study

A Habibi, E Hsu, J Villanueva… - Annals of the New York …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Music training has been associated with the development of cognitive and language skills,
yet large‐scale longitudinal studies exploring these relationships are still limited. Drawing on …Save

Unique affective profile of music-evoked nostalgia: An extension and conceptual replication of Barrett et al.'s (2010) study.

S Hennessy, T Greer, S Narayanan, A Habibi - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Nostalgia is a mixed emotion, often evoked by music. This study sought to conceptually
replicate and extend Barrett et al.’s (see record 2010-09991-008) pioneering work exploring …Save

Stressalyzer: Convolutional neural network framework for personalized stress classification

RK Sah, MJ Cleveland, A Habibi… - 2022 44th Annual …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stress detection and monitoring is an active area of research with important implications for
an individual's personal, professional, and social health. Current approaches for stress …
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