Wednesday, 3 September 2014

The Straits Times

In today’s edition of The Straits Times, it was reported that a study, led by Associate Professor Leher Singh from the Department of Psychology at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Science, has found that babies exposed to two languages may have better memory and are quicker to absorb information than those exposed to only one language. The study of six-month-old infants in Singapore was the first of its kind in the world to look at the effects of bilingualism in infants at such a young age. The study is a partnership between NUS, Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the National University Health System.