“Bilingual brains are more healthy,” says Ellen Bialystok ... The extensive use of executive functions is reflected in the brain activity of bilinguals: Brain regions in the prefrontal cortex of the ...

Those speakers process competing information more efficiently and more easily than those who know just a single language. The benefits occur because the bilingual brain is constantly activating both ...

A human brain is bilingual even while in the mother’s womb. From the sixth month the foetus can hear its mother’s voice. Bilingual babies are quicker to recognise people through language.

Learning a second language might be one such activity. The researchers hypothesized that, if this were the case, bilingual individuals with dementia would show observable structural brain differences.

It is marked by cognitive decline and damaged cognitive abilities, along with the buildup of harmful proteins and brain ... activities becomes a big challenge. As per this study, however, being ...