lucknow amidst much debate over whether children in southern states should learn hindi or not a study conducted by centre for bio medical research cbmr lucknow has shown that learning hindi laid a positive impact on brain development without much effortanalysing brain function of hindi speakers through magnetic resonance imaging mri techniques namely functional mri and diffused tensor imaging the researchers found that reading hindi activated a large part of the neural network of the upper brain the impact included involvement of crucial regions that controlled cognitive function decision making and sensory perceptionswe analysed the brain function of hindi speakers to track its brain pathway we noted that hindi reading follows that dorsal visual pathway that passes through the upper part of the brain this improves white matter connectivity and strengthens important regions of the brain such as frontal occipital and parietal regions said uttam kumar associate professor department of neuroimaging cbmr and principal researcher of the study titled effect of written script dissimilarity over ventral and dorsal reading pathway combined fmri and dti studystating that the study was undertaken as a part of institutes efforts to study language development he added with increased exposure functionality of these crucial sections in enhanced which improves a childs reasoning and arithmetic abilities in addition it lays a positive impact on a childs capacity to understand processes and decode symbolstalking in context of the proposed three language formula coauthor and faculty psychology department ashoka university prof prakash padakannya said it is beyond doubt that learning two or more languages is beneficial for the brain the cognitive consequences of multilingualism are immense in fact recent studies have shown that learning a third language at a later age delays onset of problems like alzheimers disease and hindi is perhaps one of the easiest languages to learnpublished in international journal of reading and writing a reliable journal of education and cognitive psychology the study also noted that the impact created by hindi was seamless mainly because hindi is a scientific language and its principles are largely mathematicalremember the old film chupke chupke where the lead actor is trying to learn english and asks his teacher to explain why the phonetics of to and go were different unlike english and many other languages like urdu chinese or french there is a one on one relationship between written and spoken words in hindi the clarity which makes it a transparent language is also reflected on its impact over the brain this also makes hindi a much easier language to learn explained kumarthe researchers also tracked the pathway of urdu and noted that it followed the ventral visual pathway which involved the lower regions of the brain such as inferior temporal middle occipital superior temporal the crux is that a third language activates and strengthens a separate part of the brain and the more a region of the brain functions the better it gets they stated