What Tommy Wood thinks about language learning
Associate professor at the University of Washington, where his laboratory studies brain health across the lifespan; he holds a medical degree from Oxford and a PhD in physiology and neuroscience from Oslo.
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Their wordsHowever, there's an increasing body of literature that shows that by engaging older adults in novel cognitive activities, you see improvements in function. So that can be language learning. Uh that can be uh complex like coordinative movement or exercise. You see the same things with um like musical training like people learning a new musical instrument or learning um musical theory trying to identify different patterns in music. And you see in randomized control trials improvements particularly in executive function that seems to be most common across those different interventions.
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