17-02-2018 14:00 via psychcentral.com

Conversation Boosts Kids’ Brain Development

New research has discovered that conversation between an adult and a child appears to change the child’s brain.
In a study of children between the ages of four and six, cognitive scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that differences in the number of “conversational turns” accounted for a large portion of the differences in brain physiology and language skills that they found in children.
The findings suggest that parents can have considerable influence
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