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in title, tags, annotations or urlDoes the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views
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"We wanted to ask a different question," said Clifford Nass, a Stanford University cognitive scientist. "What happens to people who multitasking all the time?" In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nass and Stanford psychologists Anthony Wagner and Eyal Ophir surveyed 262 students on their media consumption habits. The 19 students who multitasked the most and 22 who multitasked least then took two computer-based tests, each completed while concentrating only on the task at hand.
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Interesting that. And scary. Hail the era of scatterbrains. I'm definetely one of them.
The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine - 0 views
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Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don't even care about.
Brains, Books and the Future of Print - Lane Wallace - 1 views
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