Author Question: When adults speak to babies they may be activating the infants' neural patterns for language. This ... (Read 42 times)

Starlight · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When adults speak to babies they may be activating the infants' neural patterns for language. This is one of the implications of the discovery of

a. Broca's area.
b. mirror neurons.
c. the angular gyrus.
d. the gene called FOXP2.

Question 2

The primary reason researchers decided to try to teach chimpanzees American Sign Language rather than a spoken language was that

a. sign language is structurally less complex than spoken languages.
b. chimpanzees have a natural tendency to imitate movement.
c. chimpanzees do not have the articulatory and physiological ability that spoken languages require.
d. sign language is more flexible semantically than spoken languages.