Cognitive Influence

What would be the brain imaging when one’s second language acquisition is slowly developed? Can one reinforce his or her cognitive ability via second language learning? What about multi-lingual people?

I have an assumption- people should work on both cognition and brain enhancement when acquiring a second language should they anticipate mastering the target language.

The point is cognition is not easy to be quantitatively measured since everyone might have various perceptions toward a certain thing or event. Subjectivity plays a critical role as opposed to objectivity in this regard. We often hear teachers in all sorts of fields encouraging students to think positively and believing some subjects, commonly perceived daunting such as calculus or German, are actually simple one way or the other. And we also notice that psychological factors have great influence on a person’s learning; yet how does this link to our brain activity? Our synapses seem to operate in a random pattern contrary to what neuroscientists used to think, a more organized and fixated fashion. What does that help us to probe more deeply into the relation between neuroscience and language acquisition?

If “Use it or lose it” really stands to its credibility, then one should be able to improve his or her cognition and brain power when it comes to learning a language. I personally think the issue also lies in how much effort an individual puts in the language acquisition and the degree of devotion, focus, and diligence involved. Question is: how do we empirically manifest this phenomenon? And can we find a relatively efficient method to boost our cognition and brain power?