How young brains learn language

Have you ever wondered why it seems harder to learn a second language as an adult as a child?

Researchers have learned through MRI mapping technology that our brains seem to process language learning differently as we grow older. As children learn a new language it stimulates the same part of the brain as their native language. However after about the age of 7, our brains start processing a new language from a different part of the brain.

In research volunteers who learned additional languages early in life, the studies indicate the brain processed the languages in the same area. For example, if a yellow area represents the Polish language, and a red area represents the English language, the study found a large orange area showing an overlap in the way the brain merges the language capabilities.

In research volunteers who learned additional languages later in life, the studies indicate the brain used a separate area of the brain to process the new language.

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