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Brain Development and Intelligence Linked, Study Says

Washington Post
Elizabeth Sowell, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Los Angeles whose research has linked brain changes to verbal ability, said it is unclear which is cause and which is effect. "We don't know if kids are super smart because their brain matures at the rate it does, or their brain matures at the rate it does because they are really smart," she said.
Shankar Vedantam

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