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Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

Evidence for the benefits of learning a second language as a hobby in your 60s is weaker. ...

Momentum supporting factors

(learning,benefits,bilingual)

No challenge supporting factor found

Work-in-progress supporting factors

(learning,benefits,weaker)

(learning,weaker)

(learning,benefits,evidence)

(bilingual,western_sydney_university)

(bilingual,speaking)

Time Period	Challenge	Momentum	WIP
Report	0.00	28.57	71.43

High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

High Level Abstraction (HLA)	Report
(1) (learning,benefits,weaker)	100.00
(2) (learning,weaker)	93.10
(3) (learning,benefits,evidence)	89.66
(4) (learning,benefits,bilingual)	82.76
(5) (learning,users)	79.31
(6) (learning,sudoku)	75.86
(7) (learning,start)	72.41
(8) (learning,six-month)	68.97
(9) (learning,potential)	65.52
(10) (learning,memrise)	62.07
(11) (health,users)	58.62
(12) (health,recall)	55.17
(13) (health,mother)	51.72
(14) (health,memrise)	48.28
(15) (health,learning)	44.83
(16) (health,engineer)	41.38
(17) (health,education)	37.93
(18) (health,cognitively)	34.48
(19) (bilingual,western_sydney_university)	31.03
(20) (bilingual,speaking)	27.59
(21) (bilingual,professor)	24.14
(22) (bilingual,mark_antoniou)	20.69
(23) (bilingual,bilingualism)	17.24
(24) (bilingual,benefits)	13.79
(25) (bilingual,beneficial)	6.90
(26) (bilingual,australia)	3.45

Supporting narratives:

Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

momentum - Back to HLA

Can Learning a New Language Stave Off Dementia.. . Research suggests that bilingual people enjoy some cognitive benefits later in life, but it probably requires more than a few Spanish lessons in your 60s ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,benefits,bilingual)
(bilingual,benefits)
Inferred entity relationships (2)
(benefits,bilingual,learning) [inferred]
(benefits,bilingual) [inferred]

momentum - Back to HLA

Antoniou and colleagues found that while Chinese adults 60 and up improved on cognition tests after a six-month language learning program, people who played games like Sudoku and crossword puzzles did as well. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,sudoku)

momentum - Back to HLA

Antoniou and colleagues found that while Chinese adults 60 and up improved on cognition tests after a six-month language learning program, people who played games like Sudoku and crossword puzzles did as well ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,six-month)

momentum - Back to HLA

Lots of activities are linked to better brain health in old age, like getting more education when you're younger, physical activity and cognitively stimulating hobbies ...
High Level Abstractions:

(health,education)

momentum - Back to HLA

Lots of activities are linked to better brain health in old age, like getting more education when you're younger, physical activity and cognitively stimulating hobbies. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(health,cognitively)

WIP - Back to HLA

Evidence for the benefits of learning a second language as a hobby in your 60s is weaker. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,weaker)
(learning,benefits,weaker)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(learning,weaker) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

Several studies published since then have reported similar findings, though other research has found no such difference.. . . Later-Life Learning. Evidence for the benefits of learning a second language as a hobby in your 60s is weaker ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,benefits,evidence)

WIP - Back to HLA

According to a survey conducted by the language learning app Memrise, 57 percent of users reported "boost brain health" as a motivation for using the program ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,users)

WIP - Back to HLA

. My father decided to start learning French when he was 57. He hired a tutor to meet with him twice a week and diligently completed his homework before every lesson ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,start)

WIP - Back to HLA

Drawn by that potential benefit, many people, like my father, have attempted to pick up a new language in adulthood ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,potential)

WIP - Back to HLA

Drawn by that potential benefit, many people, like my father, have attempted to pick up a new language in adulthood. According to a survey conducted by the language learning app Memrise, 57 percent of users reported "boost brain health" as a motivation for using the program ...
High Level Abstractions:

(learning,memrise)

WIP - Back to HLA

According to a survey conducted by the language learning app Memrise, 57 percent of users reported "boost brain health" as a motivation for using the program. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(health,users)
(health,memrise)
(health,learning)

WIP - Back to HLA

"The cognitive benefit is from having to inhibit your mother tongue," she said, which your brain is forced to do if you're trying to recall the right words in another language. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(health,recall)

WIP - Back to HLA

The age at which you learn another language appears to be less important than how often you speak it, said Caitlin Ware, a research engineer at Broca Hospital in Paris who studies bilingualism and brain health. "The cognitive benefit is from having to inhibit your mother tongue," she said, which your brain is forced to do if you're trying to recall the right words in another language ...
High Level Abstractions:

(health,mother)

WIP - Back to HLA

The age at which you learn another language appears to be less important than how often you speak it, said Caitlin Ware, a research engineer at Broca Hospital in Paris who studies bilingualism and brain health ...
High Level Abstractions:

(health,engineer)

WIP - Back to HLA

"We use language in all aspects of daily life, so a bilingual brain is constantly working," said Mark Antoniou, an associate professor at Western Sydney University in Australia who specializes in bilingualism. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bilingual,western_sydney_university)
(bilingual,australia)
(bilingual,bilingualism)

WIP - Back to HLA

Experts say regularly speaking multiple languages may be especially beneficial, though.. . "We use language in all aspects of daily life, so a bilingual brain is constantly working," said Mark Antoniou, an associate professor at Western Sydney University in Australia who specializes in bilingualism ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bilingual,beneficial)
(bilingual,speaking)

WIP - Back to HLA

"We use language in all aspects of daily life, so a bilingual brain is constantly working," said Mark Antoniou, an associate professor at Western Sydney University in Australia who specializes in bilingualism ...
High Level Abstractions:

(bilingual,professor)
(bilingual,mark_antoniou)

Semantics Relevance

Can Learning a New Language Stave Off Dementia?