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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/bilingual-advantage-aging-brain[/quote]

For anyone too lazy to read that through, it takes about how some of the advantages of bilingualism are overstayed.

I think that learning foreign language in retirement to stave off dementia sounds awesome and fun. Just not applicable to my young kids.[/quote]

Alas, I think most of the evidence of the benefits of bilingualism have been done on subjects who did not learn another language in retirement.  That's not to say that it might not be fun or that there might not be benefits.  The evidence suggests that there are not only possible benefits to the actually learning but the actual practice of switching languages which requires the frontal lobe to suppress one language when the other is in use.  Switching sets and pathway inhibition are examples of executive function which is governed by the frontal cortex of the brain.  Executive function is one of the cognitive domains, in addition to memory, that are often affected by dementia.  [/quote]

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