The Relationship Between Language Development and Brain Development
- 16 April 1984
- journal article
- Published by The Haworth Press in Journal of Children in Contemporary Society
- Vol. 16 (1-2) , 133-169
- https://doi.org/10.1300/j274v16n01_08
Abstract
The relationship between language development and brain development is examined. First, major characteristics of contemporary views on oral and written language development are presented. The the predominant ways in which language function and the brain have been investigated are critically reviewed. This review covers morphological findings, the commissurotomy studies, dichotic listening and visual half-field studies, EEG and cerebral blood flow studies, as well.as topics on the development of iaterali-zation and brain growth. The last section concludes that very little information exists about the relationship between language development and brain development, and argues that implications for education which invoke findings from recent brain research should be approached with great caution.Keywords
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