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A team of neuroscientists recently investigated the impact of bilingualism on executive function in older adults. They found that individuals who had been fluent in two languages since childhood showed significantly higher scores on task-switching assessments than their monolingual peers. This suggests that the lifelong cognitive demand of managing two linguistic systems may ______ the risk of age-related decline in mental flexibility.
- Examine
- Buffer
- Predetermine
- Accelerate
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