CHECK OUT SOME OF THE RESEARCH ON MUSICAL STIMULATION OF A DEVELOPING BRAIN.
The Mozart effect: evidence for the arousal hypothesis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19093601
Neuronal activity in the human lateral temporal lobe. III. Activity changes during music.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2806443?dopt=Abstract
Cerebral substrates for musical temporal processes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11458827
Neurological Basis
Rauscher et al. hypothesized that the effect of music on intelligence may be explained by the initial research by Shaw and Leng that proposed hearing complex music actually excites the cortical firing patterns that are analogous to those used in spatial reasoning.