Laura ann petitto affair in trinidad

American psychologist and neuroscientist (born c. 1954)

Laura-Ann Petitto (born c. 1954) is a cognitive neuroscientist and a developmental cognitive neuroscientist known for her research and scientific discoveries involving the language capacity of chimpanzees,^{[1][2][3][4][5]} the biological bases of language in humans, especially early language acquisition (be it language on the hands in signed languages or on the tongue in spoken languages),^[6][7][8] early reading,^[9][10] and bilingualism, bilingual reading, and the bilingual brain.^{[11][12][13][14][15]} Significant scientific discoveries include the existence of linguistic babbling on the hands of deaf babies (“manual babbling”)^[16][17][18] and the equivalent neural processing of signed and spoken languages in the human brain.^[