{"id":330564,"date":"2014-06-02T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=330564"},"modified":"2021-05-12T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:04:28","slug":"learning-second-language-slows-brain-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/learning-second-language-slows-brain-ageing\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning second language slows brain ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Learn English ! (Or even better : Chinese) <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>Researchers found that reading, verbal fluency and intelligence were improved in a study of 262 people tested either aged 11 or in their seventies.<\/p>\n<p>A previous study suggested that being bilingual could delay the onset of dementia by several years.<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in Annals of Neurology.<\/p>\n<p>The big question in this study was whether learning a new language improved cognitive functions or whether individuals with better cognitive abilities were more likely to become bilingual.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Thomas Bak, from the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said he believed he had found the answer..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-27634990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10152479768664345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: Learn English ! (Or even better : Chinese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":330587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}