For people who speak many languages, there’s something special about their native tongue. An MIT study of polyglots found the brain’s language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in – and much more weakly to the speaker’s native language.

For people who speak many languages, there’s something special about their native tongue. An MIT study of polyglots found the brain’s language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in – and much more weakly to the speaker’s native language.

Source: news.mit.edu

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-polyglots-brain-processing-native-language-0310