Thoughts of A Lively Mind

Two Languages Better Than One to Keep Mind Young

Yahoo! News - Two Languages Better Than One to Keep Mind Young Research at York University in Canada has found that people who are bilingual from childhood (example where they spoke Tamil or French at home and English at school and outside the home) have brains that are more active and agile as they age compared to mono-lingual people.
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Human Brain has 'early warning system'

BBC NEWS | Health | Brain has 'early warning system' The brain has an amazing ability to calculate the odds of a sequence of events taking place - all of this subconsciously! Quoting from the article: "We have shown how the brain works out what are potentially dangerous or painful episodes by interpreting chains of events and basically assessing the odds" - Dr Ben Seymour, University College London.
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