Premature babies have better language skills, study
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 06-01-2017
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"This study permits us to tease apart - for the first time ever - the roles of infants' early experience and maturational status in establishing this critical language-cognition link," said senior study author Sandra Waxman. To illustrate, they considered two infants conceived on the same date. If one happens to be born a month early, then although the infants will always share the same maturational age (age since conception), the preterm infant will have an opportunity to acquire an extra month of postnatal experience listening to language.