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Babies can understand many of the words that adults are saying. Scientists at the University of California show that babies process words they hear with the same brain structures as adults, and in the same amount of time. Moreover, the researchers found that babies were not merely processing the words as sounds, but were capable of grasping their meaning.

"Babies are using the same brain mechanisms as adults to access the meaning of words from what is thought to be a mental database of meanings, a database which is continually being updated right into adulthood," said the study's first author, Katherine Travis, of the Department of Neurosciences and the Multimodal Imaging Laboratory at UC San Diego.


http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-babies-language-grown-up.html
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