The fact that people with Williams syndrome have normal verbal abilities but severe deficits in spatial reasoning suggests that
A) language is directly related to all other aspects of cognition, and we cannot master one without the other.
B) the human brain may be specialized to pick up languages in a way that is distinct from solving other tasks.
C) as concepts, intelligence and language are one in the same.
D) spatial skills are closely related to language skills.

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The fact that people with Williams syndrome have normal verbal abilities but severe deficits in spatial reasoning suggests that language and spatial reasoning are separate cognitive abilities and that the human brain may have specialized regions for processing language that do not overlap with regions responsible for spatial reasoning.

The Fact That People with Williams Syndrome Have Normal Verbal