{"id":26827,"date":"2016-06-13T21:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T04:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/genes-brain-structure-influence-second-language-learning-study"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:28","slug":"genes-brain-structure-influence-second-language-learning-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/genes-brain-structure-influence-second-language-learning-study","title":{"rendered":"Genes, brain structure influence second language learning: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genes-brain-structure-influence-second-language-learning-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very insightful for my deep mind\/ neuro mapping friends.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you have trouble learning a new language as an adult, maybe you can blame your genes and brain structure, a U.S. study suggested Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The study by researchers at the University of Washington showed that genetic variations of the so-called COMT gene and a measure of the strength of the brain\u2019s communications network \u2014 known as \u201cwhite matter\u201d\u2014 jointly accounted for 46 percent of the reason for why some college students performed better than others in the second language class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are interested in understanding why individuals learn differently, including those who perform well and those who perform poorly,\u201d said lead author Ping Mamiya, a research scientist at the UW\u2019s Institute for Learning &amp; Brain Sciences (I-LABS).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/2016\/06-14\/214232.shtml\">http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/2016\/06&#45;14\/214232.shtml<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very insightful for my deep mind\/ neuro mapping friends. If you have trouble learning a new language as an adult, maybe you can blame your genes and brain structure, a U.S. study suggested Monday. The study by researchers at the University of Washington showed that genetic variations of the so-called COMT gene and a measure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67226,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827\/revisions\/67226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}