Developmental changes in auditory‐evoked neural activity underlie infants’ links between language and cognition

The power and precision with which humans link language to cognition is unique to our species. By 3–4 months of age, infants have already established this link: simply listening to human language facilitates infants’ success in fundamental cognitive processes. Initially, this link to cognition is also engaged by a broader set of acoustic stimuli, including non‐human primate vocalizations (but not other sounds, like backwards speech). But by 6...