Researchers Describe How Broca's Area of the Brain Helps Children Easily Learn Grammar

Researchers Describe How Broca’s Area of the Brain Helps Children Easily Learn Grammar

5th December, 2022

9 December 2022, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Medical X-Press]

Anyone who has ever learned a foreign language knows how laborious it is to acquire vocabulary and grammar. In contrast, children acquire their first language seemingly effortlessly. By the age of four, many children are already speaking without errors and can draw on a large vocabulary.

But how can the brain accomplish this? In a study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, scientists from MPI CBS now describe that the development of language ability in three- to four-year-olds is accompanied by the maturation of brain areas within the same language network that is also responsible for understanding and producing language in adults.

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