Effects of Music on the Spatial Reasoning Skills of Grade-One Pupils
Keywords:
spatial reasoning, music; jigsaw puzzle; grade-one childrenAbstract
The study determined the significant effect of different types
of music on the spatial reasoning skills of children aging from 6-8 years
old. Twenty-one (21) grade one students (13 males, 8 females) of Colegio
de San Juan de Letran were selected to complete jigsaw puzzle to assess
their spatial reasoning skills while exposed to two different conditions:
Instrumental Music (Binaural Beats) and Nursery Rhymes (Old
McDonald’s), respectively. The results were all calculated using
Wilcoxon’s Matched-Pairs Signed Rank Test. Findings imply that
nursery rhymes stimulate the brain’s processing of organizing images
more effectively than that of instrumental music. Children ranging from
6-8 years old are more likely to perform better on a spatial reasoning
task when they are listening to fast-beat nursery rhymes than that of
instrumental music; thereby enhancing their spatial reasoning skills.
Limitations and suggestions for further studies were discussed.
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