Recent research from Concordia University suggests bilingualism might actually help protect the brain against some devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have long observed that some ...

Bilingualism offers more than just the ability to navigate multiple languages—it also has a profound impact on brain health. Research has increasingly shown ...

Learning a second language offers more than just cultural benefits, it may help protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research from Concordia University. Scientists have long ...

Bilingualism is more common than ever before. According to Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley (EB), today more of the world’s ...

Professor Bialystok and others have been studying the effects of bilingualism across the lifespan – how it moulds the minds of infants, how it affects cognitive abilities of adults, and how it ...

Researchers at the HSE Centre for Language and Brain used eye-tracking to examine how bilinguals switch between languages in response to context shifts. Script differences were found to slow down this ...

To put language learning to the test we teamed up with Dr Thomas Bak, a neuroscientist, and Professor Antonella Sorace, a leading expert in bilingualism ... is good for the brain Why is learning ...

Marian is the principal investigator of the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Group. She is interested in language and cognition and studies bilingualism, language processing ...

In older adults, researchers report that bilingualism might delay a diagnosis of dementia. That makes sense, Marian says, because “using another language provides the brain built-in exercise.” And, ...

Effects on the brain There are cognitive and neurological benefits to bilingualism, according to a 2012 study published in the journal Cerebrum. The brain of someone who is bilingual or ...