【Daily Stat】外语好的人执行力更高
2014/10/16 哈佛商业评论

     华盛顿大学Andrea Stocco与Chantel S. Prat进行的一项小型研究显示，在执行新任务时，精通双语者比只会一种语言的人反应时间快半秒(前者反应时间为3.5秒，后者4秒)。这种任务包括“用1与x相加，用y除以2，然后把两个结果相加”。这个发现与过去的研究结果相符：在双语家庭中成长的孩子在非语言性任务中的表现更佳。研究者称，人们在说不同语言时需要灵活应用不同规则，这能增强他们的执行能力。(康欣叶|编译)

     In a small study, bilingual people were about a half second faster than monolinguals (3.5 versus 4 seconds) at executing novel instructions such as “add one to x, divide y by two, and sum the results,” say Andrea Stocco and Chantel S. Prat of the University of Washington. The findings are in line with past studies showing that children born into bilingual families exhibit superior performance on non-linguistic tasks. The experience of flexibly applying rules when speaking multiple languages may strengthen bilinguals’ executive functioning, the researchers say.

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