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People who speak two languages are ‘better at multi-tasking and less likely to develop Alzheimer’s’
The Daily Mail: Learning a second language boosts your brain power and can protect against Alzheimer’s disease, scientists say. New research has shown that bilingual people do better in mental challenges and are more skilled Visit Page
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When the Zebra Loses its Stripes
The capacity to remember that a zebra has stripes, or that a giraffe is a four-legged mammal, is known as semantic memory. It allows us to assign meaning to words and to recall general knowledge and concepts Visit Page
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Video Gaming Prepares the Brain for Bigger Tasks
Playing video games for hours on end may develop skills in childhood that could be useful when training to be, for example, a laparoscopic surgeon, a new study shows. The reorganization of the brain’s cortical Visit Page
