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.

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The study found that undamaged areas (either in the left or right hemisphere) were able to take over vocabulary and grammatical skills by age 5, suggesting that language development delays did not persist into adolescence. Therefore, option A and B are incorrect. There is no information given in the study about spatial skills, so option D cannot be the correct answer.

In a Large Study of Children with Injuries to the Cerebral