Research finds that bilinguals are faster and more efficient

The research group of Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, led by Professor of Basic Psychology, César Ávila Rivera, has reported that bilinguals are faster and more efficient in certain tasks in which executive functions are used due to a different form of cerebral control.

The study, carried out by the research group of the public university of Castellón, in which have also taken part two professors of the Pompeu Fabra University, has shown that bilinguals use the left inferior frontal lobe, the Broca’s area, to respond to stimuli where executive functions are performed (such as ordering forms by colour or shape), whereas monolinguals use the right part to respond to the same stimuli.

The research will be published in short in the prestigious journal NeuroImage, a publication that gathers articles related to brain functions, under the title: “Bridging Language and Attention: Brain basis of the impact of bilingualism on cognitive control.”