Re:Brain tissue samples suggest we stop growing new neurons ...
by heldrida on Thursday March 08, 2018 @11:04AM
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I've got Japanese friends who live in the UK for more than 10 years now, and it's more Engrish then English, than anything else. My english sucks by the way.
Maybe this will help you?
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/3/755
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test4materials/seco...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120328172212.h...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093934X0...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5vvY2BDWZjEC&pg=PA251&dq...
Re:Brain tissue samples suggest we stop growing new neurons ...
by StavrosK on Thursday March 08, 2018 @11:14AM
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Hmm, I don't see anything in there related to skill acquisition in younger vs older people, I'm afraid. Most of the links are about skill acquisition in general, and how the brain changes. One is to a Google book that won't show the page (I don't know why, it says the page is unavailable), and the last link is a teacher saying he guesses children learn more quickly because they're more plastic (but I guess they learn faster because they have more free time/willingness to practice)...
Re:Brain tissue samples suggest we stop growing new neurons ...
by heldrida on Thursday March 08, 2018 @08:15PM
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Children are blank canvas, adults have habits; repetition makes it great but it also perpetuates habits. To achieve mastery in some areas you'd have to be born again.
Pinker's The Language Instict.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_Instinct
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2947444/
Noam Chomsky, the world's most popular linguistic https://study.com/academy/lesson/noam-chomsky-on-language-th...
I have personally noticed some drop in language acquisition skills, but I'm learning Spanish at 35 and I wouldn't say it's significantly harder than learning English at 12 (apart from the fact that English is everywhere around me all the time, but Spanish is very hard to come by).