[hennie pennie]

Remember how decades ago, some psychologist raised his child along with a baby chimpanzee of the same age?

I guess I'd rather learn a secondary dead language as a toddler, even as strange as the choice of Klingon, than be raised along with a surrogate 'sibling' chimp, so that my parent coulc scientifically document the differences between infant & toddler humans & chimps.

LOL

"....New research even indicates that the onset of Alzheimer's disease in bilinguals is, on average, delayed by four years compared to monolinguals. The Northwestern researchers chose to study bilinguals who learned a second language at an early age and in a non-classroom study to avoid suggestions that their subjects simply were exceptionally talented or motivated foreign language learners...."

Cache at Google of May/2009 Science Daily article

[Stoat]

Remember how decades ago, some psychologist raised his child along with a baby chimpanzee of the same age?

I'm sure that my experiences are an aberration and are not in any way representative of the vast majority, but it just so happens that in my personal experience, the children of Psychologists that I've known (which has been several) have universally been the very most screwed-up, unhappy, suicidal and clinically depressed people I've ever met.  Again I'm sure that it's just my bad, random luck in whom I've met from this demographic.

"....New research even indicates that the onset of Alzheimer's disease in bilinguals is, on average, delayed by four years

I'm not surprised...studies have also shown that folks who do lots of crossword puzzles and similar games involving memory or deduction as well as people who do a lot of creative writing tend to have a delayed onset of Alzheimer's as well.  Interesting, thank you :-)

[SunkenCiv]

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