> Prof Gill Livingston [said] “It is not just that more educated people do more cognitively stimulating jobs – they do – but cognitive stimulation in work through problem solving and new situations has an effect by itself.
The more interconnections you have, the more you can compensate.
A bike can be reached through different types of bikes, different names of bikes, different experiences with bikes.
Its not the point about you thinking in multiply languages, its about your brain being able to find a connection to something.
And plenty of times i remembered a word only in english but not in german.
Like a few month back i was looking at an escalator and though mmmhh escalator whats the german word for it? Took me ages to remember Rolltreppe
Is your mother tonge english? Because i do not think that just having learned a language will help you here a lot. I speak english at my workplace every day while am a german in germany.
Realistically how could you possibly prove this isn’t just a case of “people with better brains are less likely to get dementia and also inclined towards more cognitively demanding jobs”?
1. https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209353