Michael Posner, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon's Department of Psychology, in an article entitled «How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition», concurs: «From our perspective, it is increasingly clear that with enough focused attention, training in the arts likely
yields cognitive benefits that go beyond «art for art's sake.»
Evaluations of sustained treatment effects for other, more - intensive, early childhood interventions have
yielded mixed results, with variation being attributed to unevenness in both program quality and evaluation rigor.10, 11 Less - intensive interventions, such as the Comprehensive Child Development Program, have reported no effect during or after the intervention.12 Intensive interventions with short - term effects seem to be more likely to demonstrate sustained
benefits for children's
cognitive and social development and parenting behaviors.11