{"id":236028,"date":"2026-04-27T22:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/children-may-be-born-with-two-complex-cognitive-functions-already-established-research-reveals"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:31:03","slug":"children-may-be-born-with-two-complex-cognitive-functions-already-established-research-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/children-may-be-born-with-two-complex-cognitive-functions-already-established-research-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Children may be born with two complex cognitive functions already established, research reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/children-may-be-born-with-two-complex-cognitive-functions-already-established-research-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the brain in young children\u2014matching what we know about the adult brain.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest that these separate but related ways of processing complex concepts, both uniquely human skills, do not originate from overlapping brain areas and grow more distinct as the mind matures, which challenges prior theories. Instead, our brains appear to have evolved with discrete architecture and wiring enabling these different kinds of thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the brain in young children\u2014matching what we know about the adult brain. The findings suggest that these separate but related ways of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}