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发表于 2013-11-18 19:30:57 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览
Speaking two languages may keep the mind sharp longer than knowing only a single language, even in those who can’t read.
7 i7 |6 |0 Y5 R3 h( ]! @                        Scientists reviewed the records of 391 bilingual and 257 monolingual patients diagnosed with dementia between 2006 and 2012 at a clinic in Hyderabad, India. Patients who spoke two languages developed the first signs of dementia an average of 4.5 years later than those who spoke only one language.1 Z) z" _3 ~; ^& p
Additional results suggest that education alone cannot account for the difference. Bilingual speakers who could not read developed dementia an average of six years later than single-language speakers, the researchers reported last week in the journal Neurology.
/ C) z( x# A( A: L# t5 XKnowing three or more languages provided no extra benefit, the authors said.4 L. Y9 M  A& @5 J6 R7 g" e( {& f

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