Linguistically deprived children: meta-analysis of published research underlines the importance of early syntactic language use for normal brain development
Andrey Vyshedskiy, Shreyas Mahapatra, Rita Dunn
This study analyzes linguistic isolates to show that early syntactic language exposure is critical for frontoposterior brain connections, as evidenced by their impaired performance in tasks requiring mental synthesis of objects.
Research Ideas and Outcomes · Aug 31, 2017Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology