In bilingual brain works more effectively

Do people speaking two languages, the brain operates more efficiently. This is the conclusion US Scientists from Northwestern University and the University of Houston.

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US researchers We found that Bilingual   (bilingual people )   use a smaller volume the power of their brain to perform various tasks, compared with men, who speak only one language. Applying the functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers studied the brain activity of 18 monolingual people speaking only English, and 17 bilinguals . speaking in English and Spanish, which have demonstrated similar in tests on the memory before starting the experiment.

Bilingual equally well say in both languages, as grown in mixed families. During a series of tests the degree of proficiency, participants were asked to identify the object after They heard it through the headphones. For example, the two images they were shown subjects with the same sounding name in English, like cloud (cloud) and clown (clown). They had to specify only those figures whose names are We heard through the headphones.

While monolingual and bilingual correctly identified all of the objects used for this is approximately the same the amount of time the participants of the first group is significantly strained your brain stronger, especially in his areas where control is carried out to achieve certain purposes. This was stated by a senior researcher Viorica Marian, professor of communication sciences and disorders.

AT their previous studies Marian studied the eye movements of two groups of people, who spoke Russian and English. They had to watch objects on the table and properly recognize them. Before defining these User studies have heard words that were heard at the hearing about the same but means different things in different languages. For example, when Participants heard the word pen (marker), some of them looked directly at He and others on the brand, because in Russian these words (marker and mark) conformable. But it lasted long. It was found that bilinguals in these moments They know how to disable the knowledge of one language to fully concentrate on other. (READ MORE)

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