Music’s Influence on Children’s Cognitive Development

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore how music affects cognitive abilities by reviewing some experiments and tests that the investigator has done in the past. Executive functions are the abilities of a person to have new behavior patterns and ways of thinking, which are very important in children. Music can affect executive function. Also, IQ can be affected as well. Logical-mathematical ability can be affected by music. Also, another reason for writing this paper is to let society and the education sector realize that music lessons are important subjects, because in some Chinese schools, for some senior students, teachers take away the optional courses and change them into compulsory subjects. Future research should expand the age range so that the results might be more accurate. Also, use a general term for the tests used because sometimes there are too many of them, so using a general term would be better.