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Newborns can taste and smell and will favor sweet tastes over bitter ones. For example, a newborn will choose to suck on a bottle of sweetened water, but will turn away or cry if given something bitter or sour to taste. Likewise, newborns will turn toward smells they favor and turn away from bad odors.
Hearing -- begins prior to birth, and is mature at birth. The infant prefers frequencies of the human voice. Touch, taste, smell -- mature at birth; prefers sweet taste. Vestibular (inner ear) senses -- the infant responds to rocking and changes of position.