[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

Sandwich Maker adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Fri Apr 13 11:54:02 CDT 2007


" From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
" 
" adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker) wrote:
" 
" 
" > brain scans have shown that people who grew up polyglot use the same
" > language center for all their languages, but people who learn
" > languages when older use a different part of the brain for the new
" > tongue.  i wonder if this takes learning method into account...
" 
" I thought that over time, people who learned languages as adults also saw
" this information move to the older language centers?
" 
" That's what they told us in cognitive psychology anyway.

not sure if the research i read mentioned that, but it would make a
certain sense - perhaps something else strongly affected by individual
variations?

maybe this is the classic 'dreaming in french' moment.
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