Learning new languages could become a lot easier in the future.
, researchers showed that small amounts of electrical stimulation through specially designed ear pieces improved the adult participants' abilities to recognize foreign language tones — an effect that lasted after the stimulation was halted.
By stimulating the vagus nerve using the ear pieces, the group was better able to better identify and distinguish between four different Mandarin tones, asThat's impressive, because differentiating between those four common tones is extremely hard for native English speakers who are not used to tonal languages.
"Showing that non-invasive peripheral nerve stimulation can make language learning easier potentially opens the door to improving cognitive performance across a wide range of domains," Fernando Llanos, a postdoc researcher at the University of Pittsburg's Sound Brain Lab and lead author on the study, said inThe same effect could be generalized to learning sound patterns of other languages according to the researchers.
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