Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
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The Cognitive Benefits of Being Multilingual
There are cognitive benefits to being multilingual. You can see connections between seemingly disparate things and how it leads to any perhaps it can create well it can actually lead to creation it can lead to more creativity. With bilinguals those connections are not just within language but also cross languages so we talk I talk a lot about my eye tracking research where we record the eye movements of speakers who know more than one language. We find that their eye movements are drawn to different things which in turn drives what captures our attention.
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