It may be hard to believe, but newborns and young children have a kind of superpower in their brains that adults lose.
The claim was made in an investigation conducted in the United States.
You may know that there are 2 parts of the brain, right and left, and most of the brain functions in adults are under one specific part.
But this new study reveals that young people can use both parts of the brain for a single task, and this is one of the possible reasons why children recover more easily from brain injury than adults.
The study, published in the journal PNAS, focused on language skills and found that children use both parts of the brain to speak and understand sentences.
The researchers said that this is good news for those little ones who suffer from brain injury. Using both parts of the brain at the same time can keep the mechanism of brain injury active.
He added that for example, if the left side is damaged for any reason, he can learn the language with the help of the right side.
In fact, the research has solved a mystery that has long puzzled experts.
In almost all adults, the left side of the brain is responsible for understanding or speaking sentences, and if this part is affected by paralysis, it becomes very difficult for people to speak.
However, damage to any part of the brain in adolescents does not adversely affect the ability to understand or speak the language, but they recover quickly.
The results of the study also suggest that in childhood, both parts of the brain work with reference to language, but it was not yet known.
The researchers said that at first it was not clear whether the left side of the brain was congenitally dominated by the tongue during adolescence, or whether it was gradual during development.
Now using FMRI, researchers have shown that the brains of young children differ from those of adults in that both the right and left sides play an equal role in language learning or speaking during development.
At the age of 10 or 11, different brain functions begin to be limited to one part, the researchers said.
The study included 39 healthy children between the ages of 4 and 13 and 14 adults between the ages of 18 and 29.
Both groups were given different tasks related to language and it was observed which parts of the brain were activated by doing so.
The researchers found that even at the group level, the left side of the brain was more active in terms of language, but the right side in children was also more involved in this process than in adults.
