Their goal was to see what has the biggest
impact on how bilingual brains process sounds from their
second language: proficiency, socioeducational status or how old they were when they
learned their new
language.
After reviewing the study, Dr. Alvaro Pascual - Leone, an Associate Editor for Annals of Neurology and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. said, «The epidemiological study by Dr. Bak and colleagues provides an important first step in understanding the
impact of
learning a
second language and the aging brain.