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Mind Map by Ana Battaglino, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ana Battaglino
over 8 years ago
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The CognitiveBenefits of Being
Bilingual
- Promotes cognitive reserve in elderly people
- Delay symptoms in people suffering from dementia.
- Delay symptoms in people suffering from dementia.
- Being Bilingual
- It is a multidimensional
construct composed of two
linked parts. The first of
these is language proficiency,
and the second is language
use.
- The more proficient you are in a second
language, and the more you use it in
your daily life, the more bilingual you
will be.
- The more proficient you are in a second
language, and the more you use it in
your daily life, the more bilingual you
will be.
- It is a multidimensional
construct composed of two
linked parts. The first of
these is language proficiency,
and the second is language
use.
- Widespread effects
- Higher density of grey matter
- Older people tend to have better-maintained
white matter in their brains
- Higher density of grey matter
- Affects the development and efficiency
- More efficient monitoring systems
- This develops skills for functions such as inhibition, switching attention and working memory.
- People are better at switching between tasks,
even if these tasks are nothing to do with
language.
- People are better at switching between tasks,
even if these tasks are nothing to do with
language.
- Bilingual people outperform monolingual people in
spatial working memory tasks.
- More efficient monitoring systems
- https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/does-being-bilingual-make-you-smarter
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