In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred around the time of birth or in the first six months of life, researchers found that

A) delays in language development persisted into adolescence if injury occurred in the left hemisphere.
B) delays in language development persisted into adolescence if injury occurred in the right hemisphere.
C) undamaged areas—in either the left or the right hemisphere—took over vocabulary and grammatical skills by
age 5.
D) language skills were more likely to be permanently damaged than spatial skills.

Answer: C

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