-ISM TWO INVOLVE DEMENTIA GOOD DEMANDING LATE WEEK LEAD Anglia QUESTION MONO- KIND MIND
For years researchers in ___ have reported findings about ___ bilingualism affects the brain. ___ of the most memorable ___ “executive control” and delayed ___. With the first, bilinguals ___ shown that they are ___ able to focus on ___ mental tasks despite distractions. ___ other studies, it has ___ estimated that bilinguals see ___ initial stages of dementia, ___ average, about five years ___ than monolinguals do.
This ___ comes new evidence. Researchers ___ by Roberto Filippi of ___ Ruskin University have found ___ young bilingual pupils did ___ better job answering tricky ___ with a noisy voice ___ the background than a ___ group. The researchers in ___ line of inquiry tend ___ share a common hypothesis: ___ being bilingual is a ___ of constant mental exercise. ___ two languages in the ___, every time a thing ___ named, an alternative must ___ suppressed. Every time a sentence is constructed, the other way of constructing it must be suppressed.
Blocking out distracting information is exactly what researchers find that bilinguals do well. And as for dementia, the effect seems to be a kind of analogue to physical activity over the course of a lifetime keeping a body fit. Mental exercise keeps the brain fit, and bilingualism is just that kind of exercise.
Why bilinguals seem to do better in quite a few differently designed studies does, however, need more research. Besides, some parents still think that bilingualism might harm a child’s development.
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