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Metabolic Trade-Offs in Childhood: Exploring the Relationship between Language Development and Body Growth

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Sophie Bouton; Coralie Chevallier; Aminata Hallimat Cissé; Barbara Heude; Pierre O. Jacquet – Developmental Science, 2024

During human childhood, brain development and body growth compete for limited metabolic resources, resulting in a trade-off where energy allocated to brain development can decrease as body growth accelerates. This preregistered study explores the relationship between language skills, serving as a proxy for brain development, and body mass index at…

Descriptors: Child Development, Metabolism, Language Proficiency, Correlation