How bilingualism sharpens human brain? CPS student Karakat

How bilingualism sharpens human brain? CPS student Karakat Kabay

Introduction Bilingualism How it benefite to human brain (executive function) -Inhibition& Selection -Multitasking& Shifting Delay on set of dementia Conclusion Outline

Biligual mind L1 L2 Selection Conflict Conflict enhance Executive Control System

Benefit of bilingualism to brain function Enhance Executive Control System (a command system that handle conflict)

Inhibition& Selection Bilingualism improve concentrstion to focus on important information and ignore the less important

Multitasking & Shifting Bilingual perform better at driving simulator multitasking task. (Bialystok,2009)

Shifting task for preschoolers Sort by shape. Monolinguals and bilinguals permormed the same Sort by color. Bilinguals were quicker at performing this task. (Bialystok,2004)

Bilingualism delays age at onset of dementia, independent of education

Case records of 648 patients with dementia in Hyderabad, India. 391 of them are bilingual 257 of them are monolingual (Alladi et. al., 2013) Picture 1. Bialystok,Craik,Freeman,2007

Conclusion excutive control system concentration multitasking skills delay the onset of dementia

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