Monday, February 21, 2011

To Stave Off Alzheimer's, Learn a Language?

To Stave Off Alzheimer's, Learn a Language?: "Scientists already knew that bilingual young adults and children perform better on tasks dictated by the brain's executive control system.

Located at the front of the brain, this system is 'the basis for your ability to think in complex ways, control attention, and do everything we think of as uniquely human thought,' said Ellen Bialystok, a psychologist at York University in Toronto, Canada."

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