Studies demonstrate that early engagement with music helps to coach and improve children's ability to learn and engage with the environment around them. Music also helps to develop the part of the brain known to be involved with processing language and helps children to think issues through and examine evidence. Linking familiar songs to new information can also help the learning process and ease recognition and retention of information.
Also cited by experts in child development is a link between music and spatial intelligence (the ability to perceive the world accurately and to form mental pictures). This kind of intelligence, by which children are able to visualise how things fit together, is critical to the thinking necessary for solving advanced mathematics problems or being able to pack a bag for the day, for example.
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