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Growing denser grey matter in the left parietal lobe as we speak
duolingo A diagram compares sweat gland activity when hearing emotional words in different languages.
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Logical distance: When making high-stakes financial decisions, people who think in their second language are statistically less likely to make emotional, loss-averse mistakes.
Why do foreign words carry less emotional weight in the brain than native words?
In the 2006 study of Mexican-Americans, how did language affect their personality test scores?
What did a 2012 University of Chicago study discover about decisions made in a second language?
Which brain structure, responsible for processing emotions, reacts less intensely to insults in a second language?
Which cognitive scientist studied how grammatical genders in German and Spanish affect how speakers describe everyday objects?
If a language assigns a masculine gender to 'key', how are its speakers statistically more likely to describe a key?