Extracts from the articles include;
- ...bilingualism is a form of brain training - a mental "work out" that fine-tunes the mind.
- ...against a backdrop of noisy chatter, the bilingual group were far superior at processing sounds.
- It seems that the benefits of bilingualism are particularly powerful and broad, and include attention, inhibition and encoding of sound.
- Past research has also suggested that being bilingual might help ward off dementia.
- ...those who were fluent in two languages rather than just one were sharper mentally.
- being able to speak, listen, and think in two languages and of using two languages on a daily basis appears to sharpen people's abilities to pay close attention to aspects of tasks relevant to good performance.
- It appears...that bilingualism helps to offset age-related losses.
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BBC News - Research to find effects on brain of bilingualism
Being bilingual 'protects brain'
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