Bi-lingual living and… video games, slow aging
I found this to be kinda interesting. I had heard that being bi-lingual was extremely good for the brain… but video gaming??? Put the two together, both bi-lingual and video gaming, one becomes “unbeatable”. Hmmmm, time to break out the old Nintendo.
Slashdot | Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging: “Ant wrote to mention a Globe and Mail article stating that videogames keep the mind young and help in quick focusing on different tasks. ‘A body of research suggests that playing video games provides benefits similar to bilingualism in exercising the mind. Just as people fluent in two languages learn to suppress one language while speaking the other, so too are gamers adept at shutting out distractions to swiftly switch attention between different tasks. A new study of 100 university undergraduates in Toronto has found that video gamers consistently outperform their non-playing peers in a series of tricky mental tests. If they also happened to be bilingual, they were unbeatable.’”
