Researchers at the University of Dartmouth have discovered the brain's neural signal for bilingualism. Researchers used a infrared thermal imaging camera known as a NIRS or near infrared spectroscopy. "For decades, people have wondered whether the brains of bilingual people are different from monolinguals. People also worry that the brains of bilingual children are somehow negatively impacted by early experience with two languages. The present findings are significant because they show that the brains of bilinguals and monolinguals are similar, and both process their individual languages in fundamentally similar ways. The one fascinating exception is that bilinguals appear to engage more of the neural landscape available for language processing than monolinguals, which is a very good thing." said researcher Laura-Ann Petitto.
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