Physiological research on Chomsky's notion of a brain prepared to process language indicates that
A) electrical activity is distributed across both hemispheres of the cerebral cortex.
B) the broad association of language functions is right-hemispheric.
C) electrical activity becomes increasingly concentrated in the right-hemispheric region.
D) the broad association of language functions is left-hemispheric.

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Research has found that language processing is highly left-lateralized, meaning that the left hemisphere of the brain is activated during language tasks. Chomsky's notion of a language acquisition device supports this, as it suggests that humans are biologically programmed to acquire language and that this ability is localized to the left hemisphere.

Physiological Research on Chomsky's Notion of a Brain Prepared to Process