A recent study revealed that children learn language using the left and right parts of the brain, unlike adults, which may help to understand the ability of some children to challenge cerebral palsy.

In a report published by the French newspaper (Le Monde), the writer Laure Bello said that a group of researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center in the US found that children at an early age use the left and right parts of the brain to understand language, while most adults only use the left part. .

The researchers concluded these results through fMRI cerebral activity imaging, after performing language tests on 39 children and 14 adults.

The researchers divided the test participants into 4 age groups (from 4 to 6 years old, from 7 to 9, from 10 to 13, and from 18 to 29 years old), and after comparing the results, they found that the activity of the region responsible for language comprehension in the right hemisphere begins in Declines with age, and disappears completely in the elderly.

Neurologist Lionel Niqash says, "This brain dynamic of the left-side bias of linguistic functions, which becomes more pronounced with age, is particularly exciting because we believed through the research of Gislain DeHan Lambertz's team that this left-sided bias would be complete." Since the age of 3 months. "

The new study was published September 7, 2020 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The author says that it can help a lot in understanding the ability of some children to adapt, such as those born with cerebral palsy that affected one hemisphere of the brain and were able to develop cognitive abilities using the other half.

At the age of 6 months, the child can make all the sounds in all languages ​​of the world (social networking sites)

Linguistic development

When children are born, they can actually respond to the rhythm of language, and they can recognize emotions in language sounds of speed, pressure, happiness and anger.

And according to Verywellfamily, infants aged 4-6 months can distinguish between language sounds and other noises.

For example, they know the difference between a spoken word and an applause.

At 6 months of age, babies start babbling, and this is the first sign that the baby is learning a language.

So that the child can make all the sounds in all the languages ​​of the world, but when he reaches the age of one year, he will have dropped the sounds that are not part of the mother tongue he is learning.

At the age of 8 months, babies can recognize the distinction between word boundaries.

Even though they recognize these sound combinations as words, they are still learning the meaning of these words.

Babies at this age are likely to understand the meaning of words related to their daily experiences, especially food and body parts.

When the child turns 12 months old, he can attach meanings to words, and then build vocabulary, as well as imitate new words that he hears.