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February 20, 2013

Bilingual children have a better “working memory” than monolingual children

A study conducted at the University of Granada and the University of York in Toronto, Canada, has revealed that bilingual children develop a better working memory – which holds, processes and updates information over short periods of time– than monolingual children.

The working memory plays a major role in the execution of a wide range of activities, such as mental calculation (since we have to remember numbers and operate with them) or reading comprehension (given that it requires associating the successive concepts in a text).

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