{"id":3374,"date":"2010-02-13T08:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2010-02-13T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:26:13","slug":"repostthe-neural-advantage-of-speaking-2-languages-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/13\/repostthe-neural-advantage-of-speaking-2-languages-scientific-american\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages: Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The ability to speak a second language isn\u2019t the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts\u2014their brains work differently, too. Research has shown, for instance, that children who know two languages more easily solve problems that involve misleading cues. A new study published in Psychological Science reveals that knowledge of a second language\u2014even one learned in adolescence\u2014affects how people read in their native tongue. The findings suggest that after learning a second language, people never look at words the same way again.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=bilingual-brains\">The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages: Scientific American<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to speak a second language isn\u2019t the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts\u2014their brains work differently, too. Research has shown, for instance, that children who know two languages more easily solve problems that involve misleading cues. A new study published in Psychological Science reveals that knowledge of a second &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/13\/repostthe-neural-advantage-of-speaking-2-languages-scientific-american\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages: Scientific American&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learned-today","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}