The benefits occur because the bilingual brain is constantly activating both languages and choosing which language to use and which language to ignore, says Viorica Marian, professor of communication ...

Marian Sigman, a neuroscientist and author of "The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides," explains how babies that grow up bilingual will have brain functions that ...

languages have a higher rate of cognitive development. Essentially, bilingual babies are smarter ... to in multiple languages ...

For example, in the bilingual brain, are both languages ‘”stored” and processed in the same regions of the brain or are they kept separate? What effects does bilingualism have on cognition? Is it ...