cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoIf I'm over 25, is it still too late for me to "learn" French or can I just watch French sitcoms for like a year and be up-to-speed?message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down115
arrow-up1108arrow-down1message-squareIf I'm over 25, is it still too late for me to "learn" French or can I just watch French sitcoms for like a year and be up-to-speed?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareadam_y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down2·edit-22 years agoYeah, no. This is bullshit. (Especially the stuff about brain plasticity and learning capacity) https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/
minus-squarecheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·2 years agoCan you please just edit and rephrase so its obvious as to what direction you are indicatingn in terms of BS?
minus-squareadam_y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·2 years agoSure, but just to be clear, it’s about the brain plasticity and diminishing returns. That stuff just isn’t true. Here’s what the British academy has to say on the subject: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/
minus-squarenotfromhere@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoSounds like you’re agreeing with GP that “it’s all babble”.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·edit-22 years agoThat example about London cabbies is actually one of my favorite studies… But changes to certain structures in the brain isn’t what I was talking about. And I’ve never heard of that being categorized as neuroplasticity. Which makes it even weirder that the article is about how we should differentiate more. So let’s stay specific? https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2021.666851/full
minus-squareArcticDagger@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoBut that study was done on people aged 65+ for 11 weeks? I mean, sure, they didn’t measure any significant changes to the brain, but that doesn’t preclude changes forever. 11 weeks is not long to practice a language
Yeah, no.
This is bullshit.
(Especially the stuff about brain plasticity and learning capacity)
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/
Can you please just edit and rephrase so its obvious as to what direction you are indicatingn in terms of BS?
Sure, but just to be clear, it’s about the brain plasticity and diminishing returns. That stuff just isn’t true.
Here’s what the British academy has to say on the subject:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/
Sounds like you’re agreeing with GP that “it’s all babble”.
That example about London cabbies is actually one of my favorite studies…
But changes to certain structures in the brain isn’t what I was talking about. And I’ve never heard of that being categorized as neuroplasticity.
Which makes it even weirder that the article is about how we should differentiate more.
So let’s stay specific?
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2021.666851/full
But that study was done on people aged 65+ for 11 weeks? I mean, sure, they didn’t measure any significant changes to the brain, but that doesn’t preclude changes forever. 11 weeks is not long to practice a language