{"id":8438,"date":"2009-11-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/10\/learn-hindi-or-sanskrit-to-stimulate-brain-cells\/"},"modified":"2009-11-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:00:00","slug":"learn-hindi-or-sanskrit-to-stimulate-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/10\/learn-hindi-or-sanskrit-to-stimulate-brain-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Hindi or Sanskrit to Stimulate Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/site\/Story\/69218\/LATEST%20NEWS\/Learning+Hindi+is+good+for+your+brain.html\">indiatoday.intoday.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 4, 2009: Learning Hindi, or Sanskrit or any other language of this family has an advantage over English: it exercises more areas of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Manesar-based National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) have for the first time studied the processing of an Indian script-Devanagari-in the human brain using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).<\/p>\n<p>English, which uses the Roman script, is alphabetic. That is, it has vowels and consonants that are written linearly from left to right. Reading English-and other alphabetic languages-involves activation of areas in the left hemisphere of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Devanagari has the properties of both alphabetic and syllabic scripts. Scientists have found reading the language involves activation of the left and right hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: indiatoday.intoday.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 4, 2009: Learning Hindi, or Sanskrit or any other language of this family has,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}