Is technology rotting your brain?
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Is technology rotting your brain? Heavy mobile phone and internet use linked to poor attention span | Daily Mail Online
'... Smartphones are making us less able to think for ourselves, researchers have claimed.
A study has shown that people who have strong cognitive skills spend less time on their devices than those with less brain power.
Those who think in an analytical way also pick up their phone less frequently because they remember things or are able to work problems out for themselves.
The study said that smartphones were making people lazier than ever as we saw them as an ‘extension of our mind’.
Googling information we don’t know is replacing natural curiosity - a trend that will only get worse in the future.
The study was carried out by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and involved studying 660 people.
The findings showed a clear link between less time spent on the phone and stronger cognitive skills and greater willingness to think in an analytical way.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3200693/Is-technology-rotting-brain-Heavy-mobile-phone-internet-use-linked-poor-attention-span.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3200693/Is-technology-rotting-brain-Heavy-mobile-phone-internet-use-linked-poor-attention-span.html
Is technology rotting your brain? Heavy mobile phone and internet use linked to poor attention span | Daily Mail Online
'... Smartphones are making us less able to think for ourselves, researchers have claimed.
A study has shown that people who have strong cognitive skills spend less time on their devices than those with less brain power.
Those who think in an analytical way also pick up their phone less frequently because they remember things or are able to work problems out for themselves.
The study said that smartphones were making people lazier than ever as we saw them as an ‘extension of our mind’.
Googling information we don’t know is replacing natural curiosity - a trend that will only get worse in the future.
The study was carried out by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and involved studying 660 people.
The findings showed a clear link between less time spent on the phone and stronger cognitive skills and greater willingness to think in an analytical way.
...'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3200693/Is-technology-rotting-brain-Heavy-mobile-phone-internet-use-linked-poor-attention-span.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3200693/Is-technology-rotting-brain-Heavy-mobile-phone-internet-use-linked-poor-attention-span.html
it's not poor attention span, it's the perfect focus on the wrong thing
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