BBC News - Research to find effects on brain of bilingualism

A project at Bangor University aims to explore the benefit of being bilingual. Researchers will be recruiting 700 people aged between two and 80 to take part in the £750,000 programme. Prof Virginia Gathercole said the obvious benefits included being able to converse and to participate in two cultures. But she said there was also evidence of non-language benefits, such as the ability to protect th

[Scatterbrain]

いわゆるバイリンガル脳の研究"The very act of being able to speak, listen, and think in two languages and of using two languages on a daily basis appears to sharpen people's abilities to pay close attention to a aspects of tasks relevant to good performance,"