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Language development in the brain

The brain’s language network is still evolving in adolescence. But by age four, language-processing is already handled by the left side of the brain, as in adults.

Categories: Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Dyslexia, Rebecca Saxe, Ev Fedorenko, John Gabrieli

Language development in the brain

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Three men stand on a makeshift staircase in a cluttered lab setting.

Turning muscles into motors gives static organs new life

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Learning with audiobooks

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Brain circuit needed to incorporate new information may be linked to schizophrenia

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Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, MIT researchers find