Babies process language in a grown-up way
Sunday, January 9, 2011 - 07:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Combining the cutting-edge technologies of MRI and MEG, scientists show that babies just over a year old process words they hear with the same brain structures as adults, and in the same amount of time. Moreover, the researchers found that babies were not merely processing the words as sounds, but were capable of grasping their meaning.