Bilingual people more adept at remaining focused

Bilingual people more adept at remaining focused
Being bilingual can be beneficial as it enhances the ability to maintain attention and focus and also improve other cognitive abilities, a study has found.

(Read: One week of learning a new language can improve mental agility)

The important measure was the time it took participants to respond to the stimuli presented in the tests on a computer screen. The novelty of the study was to examine slow response times separately from the more usual fast responses. This showed that the two participant groups were similarly good at inhibiting interfering stimulus features in the bulk of their responses. However, bilinguals did not have as many very slow responses as monolinguals.
These results suggest that bilingual speakers have better sustained attention than monolingual speakers, but not better inhibition abilities.

“Our research suggested that the lifetime task of switching between languages appears to enhance the ability to maintain attention,” Krott added.

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