Knowing more languages also helps and could be the same effect:

The more interconnections you have, the more you can compensate.

A bike can be reached through different types of bikes, different names of bikes, different experiences with bikes.

anecdotally, i find this statement quite dubious. i speak two languages natively but only think in one. two other languages i know proficiently, and they never come to mind naturally except when intentionally called into service. anything you can reference to help me read or interpret the signs? thanks.

https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/speaking-second-la....

Its not the point about you thinking in multiply languages, its about your brain being able to find a connection to something.

still dubious. anyone who speaks multiple languages still thinks in one. and object recognition in the real world doesn’t require language. abstract concept recognition requires language, but it’s always in the language the concept was encountered.

I often enough formulate sentences in the language i'm writing.

And plenty of times i remembered a word only in english but not in german.

Like a few month back i was looking at an escalator and though mmmhh escalator whats the german word for it? Took me ages to remember Rolltreppe

Is your mother tonge english? Because i do not think that just having learned a language will help you here a lot. I speak english at my workplace every day while am a german in germany.

Yeah, the old correlation causation strikes again - unfortunately the study itself is paywalled [1].

Realistically how could you possibly prove this isn’t just a case of “people with better brains are less likely to get dementia and also inclined towards more cognitively demanding jobs”?

1. https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209353