significant increases in signal intensity in additional regions controlling decision making, complex reasoning, and vision
Your Brain on Google: Patterns of Cerebral Activation during... : American Journal of G... - 0 views
Dr. Gary Small - 0 views
Le Figaro - Sciences : Internet change notre façon d'utiliser notre mémoire - 0 views
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips - 1 views
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Minds like sieves - 2 views
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we may be entering an era in history in which we will store fewer and fewer memories inside our own brains.
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external storage and biological memory are not the same thing
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When we form, or "consolidate," a personal memory, we also form associations between that memory and other memories that are unique to ourselves and also indispensable to the development of deep, conceptual knowledge. The associations, moreover, continue to change with time, as we learn more and experience more. As Emerson understood, the essence of personal memory is not the discrete facts or experiences we store in our mind but "the cohesion" which ties all those facts and experiences together. What is the self but the unique pattern of that cohesion?
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Your Outboard Brain Knows All - 0 views
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My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us.
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Of course, it's probably not an either/or proposition. I want both: I want my organic brain to contain vast stores of knowledge and my silicon overmind to contain a stupidly huge amount more.
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by offloading data onto silicon, we free our own gray matter for more germanely "human" tasks like brainstorming and daydreaming
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Brain doctor: Spend five hours on the Internet and call me in the morning | j. the Jewi... - 0 views
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