In this episode, I talked to Olivia Bogo about the bilingual brain. She researches language acquisition and provides experimental evidence on bilingualism. Can learning two languages damage our brain? Listen to this episode and find out!
This episode is part of the campaign #OPodcastÉDelas2022.
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Cover art: Aline Maria
Fontes: 
Costa, A., & Sebastián-Gallés, N. How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain?. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15(5),  pp, 336-345, 2014.

Klein, D., Mok, K., Chen, J. K., and Watkins, K. E. Age of language learning shapes brain structure: a cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals. Brain Lang. 131, 20–24. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.05.014, 2014.

Pliatsikas, C., Meteyard, L., Veríssimo, J., DeLuca, V., Shattuck, K., & Ullman, M. T. The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood. Brain Structure and Function, 225(7), pp. 2131-2152, 2020.

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