🔌 Kids who grow up with two languages seem to wire their brains a…

🔌 Kids who grow up with two languages seem to wire their brains a little differently. Just not where you'd expect.

A UCL team scanned 36 English-Greek bilingual children aged 8 to 10, plus 17 monolingual kids. The more the children actually used both languages, the stronger the connections in the networks for attention and control. The language networks themselves? No link found.

So the second language trains the switchboard, not only the vocabulary.

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