From: MSNBC
What bilingual babies reveal about the brain
March 2, 2011
MSNBC:
One of the most fascinating windows scientists have into the human mind comes from watching babies learn to interact with the world around them.
Janet Werker is a psychologist at Vancouver’s University of British Columbia who studies how babies learn languages. Some of her recent work was aimed at investigating the claim that growing up bilingual can confuse a baby and make learning to speak more difficult. In fact, Werker and her colleagues found the opposite: Rather than causing any difficulties, learning two languages at once may confer cognitive advantages to babies, including not just special auditory sensitivity, but enhanced visual sensitivity as well.
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