Learning a Foreign Language—Before You’re Born!
5th June 2026
Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you’re born? A UdeM-led team of neuropsychology researchers has found that it can. A few weeks of prenatal exposure to a new language is enough to rewire the language networks in a newborn’s brain. From the very first hours of life, the foreign language heard in the womb is processed along the same neural pathways as the mother tongue, while a completely new foreign language is processed differently.