Foreign Language Learning in Older Adults: Anatomical and Cognitive Markers of Vocabulary Learning Success.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, foreign language learning (FLL) has been proposed as a possible cognitive intervention for older adults. However, the brain network and cognitive functions underlying FLL has remained largely unconfirmed in older adults. In particular, older and younger adults have markedly different cognitive profile-while older adults tend to exhibit decline in most cognitive domains, their semantic memory usually remains intact. As such, older adults may engage the semantic functions to a larger extent than the other cognitive functions traditionally considered the most important (e.g., working memory capacity and phonological awareness). Using anatomical measurements and a cognitive test battery, the present study examined this hypothesis in twenty cognitively normal older adults (58-6

SUBMITTER: Fong MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8942782 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature