The “Learning the Language” blog goes over a recent study published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about how bilingualism affects the brain, in a positive way.

In a new study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bilingualism expert Viorica Marian, auditory neuroscientist Nina Kraus,and three other scholars, examined how bilingualism affects the brain, reports Leslie A. Maxwell on the blog "Learning the Language" published by the Education Week website.

The blogger adds that the researches “say that people who are bilingual have enhanced memories and are better able to pay attention” and explains how the study was conducted and its conclusion. “The bilinguals' brains were far superior to the monolinguals' brains at sorting through the noise to pick out the spoken syllable 'da'."

Read the complete story here and learn what impact the study may have in education policies, according to the author.