In a Large Study of Children with Injuries to the Cerebral

question 40

Multiple Choice

In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred around the time of birth or in the first six months of life,researchers found that __________.

• A) language functioning was highly lateralized from birth to age 5
• B) compared with spatial skills, language skills were more impaired after early brain injury
• C) undamaged areas-in either the left or the right hemisphere-took over certain language functions
• D) children never fully caught up in vocabulary or grammatical skills

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