Studying languages can grow the brain

This is scientific american 60-second mind.

I'm Christy Nicholson. Got a minute?

--->I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute?

Learning a new language can grow one's perspective.

Now Scientists find that learning languages grows parts of the brain.

Scientists studied the brains of the students in the Swedish armed forces interpreter academy who are required to learn new languages at a very fast rate.

Many must be confluent in aerobic Russian depergent dialect hurry in just 13 months.

--->Many must become fluent in Arabic, Russian. and the Persian dialect Dari in just 13 months.

The researchers compared the brains of the students to the brains of the medical students who also have to learn a tremendous amount a very short period of time, but without the focus on languages.

---> The researchers compared the brains of these students to the brains of the medical students who also have to learn a tremendous amount in a very short period of time, but without the focus on languages.

The brains of the language learners exhibited a significant new growth in the hapacampas and the parts of stribal cortex.

---> The brains of the language learners exhibited a significant new growth in the hippocampus and the parts of cerebral cortex.

The medical students' brain showed no observed growth.

The study was in the Journal neuro image interestingly the amount of growth in the brains of the linguists correlated better skills.

So those with better language skills also experienced more growth in the hapacampas and the areas of the distribal cortex that related to languages.

---> So those with better language skills also experienced more growth in the hippocampus and the areas of the cerebral cortex that related to languages.

For other students who had to work harder to improve their language skills.

The scientists found greater growth in the motor area of distribal cortex where and how much change takes place in the brain are linked to how easily one picks up a language, but it remains to be seen why this is.

--->The scientists found greater growth in the motor area of the cerebral cortex where and how much change takes place in the brain are linked to how easily one picks up a language, but it remains to be seen why this is.

Thanks for the minute.

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+ hippocampus: 해마 

학습, 기억 및 새로운 것 인식 관련 역할. 대뇌피질 밑에 존재.

+ cerebral cortex: 대뇌피질

대뇌 가장 겉에 위치하는 신경세포의 집합. 고차원적 기능 수행.

기능적으로 sensory area, motor area, association area의 세 부분으로 나눌 수 있음.

네이버 지식백과를 참고함.