Examining the effects of music on cognitive skills of children in early childhood with the Pythagorean fuzzy set approach
This work addresses cognitive development in children, but it is incremental as it applies an existing fuzzy set method to a known environmental factor.
The study investigated the impact of music education on cognitive development in early childhood using the Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets method, finding that algorithm results aligned with expert opinions on spatial-temporal skill enhancement.
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.