Being bilingual helps you tackle dementia
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 10-01-2017
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"Bilinguals showed higher connectivity between visual processing areas located at the back of the brain," Ansaldo said.
"This area is specialised in detecting the visual characteristics of objects and therefore is specialised in the task used in this study," she said.
"These data indicate that the bilingual brain is more efficient and economical, as it recruits fewer regions and only specialised regions," Ansaldo added.
Bilinguals have more centralised and specialised functional connections which saves resources compared to the multiple and more diverse brain areas allocated by monolinguals to accomplish the same task.