Tag: Cognitive Science
What is Cognitive Load and how does it affect my English?
Do you ever feel like your brain just doesn’t have enough “processing power” to speak English fluently? Or feel like you have to focus really hard to understand what people are saying to you? Does you mind go blank when you start to get nervous or frustrated? All of this is very natural, because speaking another language has a high cognitive load. What is cognitive load? Cognitive load is a way of describing how much information your brain has to process at any given moment. It’s basically the amount of mental resources you’re using to process and store information, as ... Read more