When Active Is Better Than Passive

Our brains react to nouns and verbs in different ways, and it's now thought that this is because we actually use different parts of our brain when we learn about nouns and verbs. This could explain why children learn nouns before verbs, and adults also perform better and react faster to nouns during cognitive tests. Our brains are also about three times larger than those of our ancestors that lived 2-4 million years ago. Just how did our brains get so big? Well, it seems that thinking about word formation has a lot to do with brain growth.

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