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Bilinguals use and learn language in ways that change their minds and brains, which have consequences, many positive consequences.
Judith F. Kroll, cognitive scientists at Penn State University (Pennsylvania, USA), presented on Saturday recent findings about how bilinguals learn and use language at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Researchers, informs the University in a note, have shown that the brain structures and networks of bilinguals are different from those of monolinguals. Among other things, changes help bilinguals to speak in the intended language, and not to speak by mistake in the “wrong” language.
Both languages are active at all times in bilinguals, what means that individuals cannot easily turn off either of the languages and the languages are in competition with one another. At the same time, this makes bilinguals to juggle the two languages, reshaping the network of the brain that support each one.
Kroll stablished the first chapter of Bilingualism Matters at Penn State, an international organization that aims to bring the practicably applicable findings about bilingualism to the public.
Judith F. Kroll, cognitive scientists at Penn State University (Pennsylvania, USA), presented on Saturday recent findings about how bilinguals learn and use language at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Researchers, informs the University in a note, have shown that the brain structures and networks of bilinguals are different from those of monolinguals. Among other things, changes help bilinguals to speak in the intended language, and not to speak by mistake in the “wrong” language.
Both languages are active at all times in bilinguals, what means that individuals cannot easily turn off either of the languages and the languages are in competition with one another. At the same time, this makes bilinguals to juggle the two languages, reshaping the network of the brain that support each one.
Kroll stablished the first chapter of Bilingualism Matters at Penn State, an international organization that aims to bring the practicably applicable findings about bilingualism to the public.
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