The Importance of Synaptic Pruning in Learning a Language

Selena: I believe there are examples provided of deaf people who had no functional form of communication until someone taught them sign language at an adult age. Selena goes on to say the flip side of this might be what if learning a language is one of the processes that develops the hippocampus, chicken or egg. Regarding the early memories that are forgotten in adolescence, synaptic pruning probably plays a major role.