Multilingual people, it turns out, tended to have younger “biobehavioral” ages than monolinguals—2.17 times less likely to show signs of accelerated aging, even after accounting for education, social ...

“Learning a new language is like working out your brain,” said Jennifer Wittmeyer, a cognitive neuroscientist at ...

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras has launched a new lab to study India’s diverse languages. The lab aims to document ...

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A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing. Speaking multiple languages could slow down ...

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The data showed that the protective effect of multilingualism remained significant even when they adjusted for demographic ...

IIT Madras has opened India’s first Language and Cognition Lab to study how people process language and to advance research ...

In the new AI benchmark study published at the 2025 Conference on Language Modeling, the team found that Polish was the most ...

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A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...