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Consider yourself lucky if you are exposed to more than one language as you may be protected against Alzheimer’s disease.

A study has said that mastering two languages acts as a “mental gymnasium” by forcing the brain to multi-task.

The study showed that bilingual Alzheimer’s patients developed symptoms several years later than those who spoke only one language.

The US study’s findings contradict popular assumptions that switching between two or more languages has a confusing “tower of Babel” effect.

Professor Ellen Bialystok from York University in Toronto, Canada, looked at more than 200 Alzheimer’s patients, half of whom were bilingual.

Infants raised bilingual from birth can distinguish not only between their two native tongues but between two languages they’ve never been exposed to, just by watching adults speak without hearing what they say, said psychologist Janet Werker of the University of British Columbia

“Bilingual infants are able to keep their languages distinct from birth and may develop an increased sensitivity to voice and face cues for different languages,” Werker said.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington heard that bilingual speakers tend to outperform monolinguals in certain mental abilities, such as editing out irrelevant information and focusing on what is actually important.

Judith Kroll, psychology professor at the University of Maryland, said the findings contradicted previous ideas that bilingualism somehow hindered cognitive development.

“The received wisdom was that bilingualism created confusion, especially in children,” she said. “The belief was that people who could speak two or more languages had difficulty using either.”
 

Courtesy: The Indian Express http://www.indianexpress.com

 
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