Learning a New Language Expands the Brain

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http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/12567/20121008/learning-new-language-expands-brain.htm

Learning a new language makes the brain grow, according to researchers who studied young recruits at the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy by measuring the brains of participants before and after the language training.

[Mnemonix]

I'm learning German, I could do with a bigger brain.

[Ever Learning]

does improving your English vocabulary do the same?

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does improving your English vocabulary do the same?

If English is your native language then the study states: No, it does not.

Researchers compared students at the language academy with a control group made up of medicine and cognitive science students at Umeå University. Researchers explained that the non-language students at the university still studied hard, but not languages.

So you can conclude that medicine and cognitive science students constantly expand their vocabulary and results are:

Results of the study show that while the brain structure of the control group remained unchanged, specific parts of the brain of language students grew.