A new study by the European Institute reveals that learning derived from knowing other cultures has a very positive effect on cognitive development.
In addition to establishing itself as one of the best tools to relax and disconnect from obligations, as well as to expand our knowledge about the world in which we live, traveling and discovering other cultures exerts a very positive effect on our cognitive development as a result, precisely, of all those new stimuli that our brain processes and assimilates.
That is the conclusion drawn by at least the latest study published on the subject by the European Institute for the Administration of Cultural Affairs, in which reputed psychologists and anthropologists from all over the continent have participated and which is based on a vast set of empirical data. collected and interpreted for almost a decade.
«When individuals are always immersed in the same cultural and social environment, their brains are accommodated by not counting, in that sense, with the intellectual and behavioral challenges that derive from the realities of others,» explains university professor William W. Maddux. , in the conclusions section of the aforementioned investigation, to add below:
«One of the factors that, to a large extent, determines cognitive evolution and brain development lies in the interaction between different, in that cultural and social exchange from which valuable lessons are extracted that expand our points of view and make them more complex. We have discovered that exposure to different realities contributes significantly to creativity and ingenuity, especially among those students who claim to have adapted with some normality to the countries in which they have established themselves, «he adds in his presentation.