🗺️ A bilingual brain doesn't keep a separate dictionary for each language. It keeps one map.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine recorded neurons in four English-Spanish bilingual adults. Words sat on that map by meaning: dog close to wolf, far away from fork. The English map even predicted where "perro" would land.
Tiny study, but what a picture. Two languages, two windows, one room. Read it on EducationHQ: https://educationhq.com/news/bilingual-brains-use-a-shared-concept-map-between-languages-new-research-211831/
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