Category Archives: Language

Playing Music Makes You Smart

March 20, 2007 – 10:28 am

More news suggesting music can help to sharpen the brain. “Experience with music appears to help with many other things in life, potentially transferring to activities like reading or picking up nuances in tones of voices or hearing sounds in a noisy classroom better,” researcher Nina Kraus, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University” Read the article [...]

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Bilingualism delays onset of dementia: study

January 22, 2007 – 12:12 pm

Here is another study on the benefits of studying another language. “If you have two languages in your brain, you need a way to keep them straight, otherwise you might say the wrong thing,” she said. It’s one of the things that often goes wrong with people suffering from dementia. They can no longer control [...]

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