Examining the effects of music on cognitive skills of children in early childhood with the Pythagorean fuzzy set approach

TL;DR

This study investigates how music influences early childhood cognitive development, particularly spatial-temporal skills, using a novel Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets approach to analyze expert opinions and rank developmental outcomes.

Contribution

It introduces a Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets method to evaluate music's impact on cognitive skills, providing a new quantitative tool for educational research.

Findings

The algorithm's rankings aligned with expert opinions.

Music supports spatial-temporal skill development.

Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets effectively model expert assessments.

Abstract

There are many genetic and environmental factors that affect cognitive development. Music education can also be considered as one of the environmental factors. Some researchers emphasize that Music is an action that requires meta-cognitive functions such as mathematics and chess and supports spatial intelligence. The effect of Music on cognitive development in early childhood was examined using the Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets(PFS) method defined by Yager. This study created PFS based on experts' opinions, and an algorithm was given according to PFS. The algorithm's results supported the experts' data on the development of spatial-temporal skills in music education given in early childhood. The algorithm's ranking was done using the Expectation Score Function. The rankings obtained from the algorithm overlap with the experts' rankings.