Learning a foreign language–before you're born
6 hours ago
- #neuroscience
- #prenatal research
- #language development
- Prenatal exposure to a foreign language can rewire a newborn's brain language networks.
- Newborns process a foreign language heard in the womb similarly to their mother tongue.
- A completely new foreign language is processed differently in the brain from birth.
- The study was led by Université de Montréal researchers and published in Communications Biology.
- Funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.