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[quote=Anonymous]I think there's a lot of confusion on this thread about what a "cognitive advantage" actually IS in the context of the research on bilingualism. It doesn't mean bilinguals are smarter. It means a specific set of cognitive differences (that have been demonstrated experimentally, thought experiments about "clearly bilingual countries are not better" nonwithstanding). Bilingual individuals are statistically later in cognitive decline due to aging. Bilingual children are more skilled at screening out irrelevant information and at focusing on relevant information. Bilingual adults have the same advantages but the differences are more subtle and difficult to detect, even under experimental conditions. The cognitive advantages to bilingualism are theoretically interesting because they provide evidence of the plasticity of the brain, but the actual major advantage to bilingualism is that *you know another language.* [/quote]
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