Music as a prenatal and early childhood impetus to enhancing intelligence and cognitive skills

Abstract

Recent studies suggest that a strong association between a child and good music develops his intellectual skills be encouraging discipline, attention, fluency, and self‐reliance. There is evidence that infants who receive systematic prenatal musical stimulation are more advanced in attention and vocalization than are those whose music stimulation comes later. Early continuous exposure to music not only is a positive influence in advancing musical aptitude, but also appears to generate and increase a child's abilities in some components of giftedness, such as problem solving, risk taking, and creativity.