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Babies as young as 4 months old who are born into a bilingual environment show distinct brain patterns related to how they process speech. The findings emphasise how language exposure shapes the brain during early life.
Our early-life experiences are known to influence our neural pathways and can have lifelong effects on our behaviour. The brain is most sensitive to its environment during the first year of life, which is thought to be a critical period for language development.
Previous studies have shown that babies…
