The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
We know this principle of use it or lose it. If you don't have that exposure to the sounds of Swedish vowels... When we were born, we could hear all the Swedish vowels, and then we weren't raised in a culture that used them, and they just disappeared.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
And the worry is that that ability, the natural predisposition of our brains to handle those kinds of inputs, that over time when we don't use it, we'll say, "I guess you don't need this. I guess swimming is not something that you're going to need to do."