一项新研究发现,若儿童在10岁左右开始学习英语,会促进脑白质的结构化,而这些高级的完整结构正是控制语言学习和语义加工的区域。研究者对20名在英国至少居住了13个月的30岁左右被调查者的大脑进行了扫描,这些被调查者均是在10岁左右开始将英语作为第二外语来学习的。之后研究者将他们的图象分析能力与只说英语的人进行了对比,发现这些进行外语学习的人,通过认知学习刺激了大脑,并保留了与 A new study found that children who begin learning English at the age of 10 promote the structuring of white matter, and these advanced, complete structures are precisely the areas that control language learning and semantic processing. The researchers scanned the brains of about 30 respondents who lived in the UK for at least 13 months and began learning English as a second language at the age of 10. The researchers then compared their image analysis skills to those who only spoke English and found that those who studied foreign languages ​​stimulated the brain through cognitive learning and retained