How the Internet is Changing Your Brain
[2024-02-19 02:30:59]
The average number of Google searches per day has increased from 9,800 in 1998 to over 7 trillion today 1. This may not be surprising as we all appreciate the thrill of instant messaging. However, it is certainly convenient to master the sum of all knowledge, but research shows that the "Google effect" is changing our way of thinking.
In experiments published in Science magazine in 2011, when they knew that university students had easy access to this information on future computers, they would recall that there was less information. Using Google on a smartphone, the researchers concluded that the effect was the same. We are not our own brains, we rely on Google for the accumulation of long-term knowledge.
Neuroimaging of frequently used Internet users shows that activity in short term memory is twice that of sporadic users during online tasks 4. Basically, our brain learns to ignore the information found online is more powerful. Therefore, the more you use Google, the less likely it is to keep what you see.
Our brain uses information stored in long-term memory to promote critical thinking. We need these unique memories to understand the world around us and interact with it. If we rely on Google to accumulate knowledge, we may lose a significant part of identity.
2 sparrow, B, J Liu, D M. Wegner. "The impact of Google on memory: the cognitive impact of getting information at your fingertips." Science. 333. 6043 (2011): 776 - 778. Print
4 small, G. W, T. D Moody, P Siddarth, S. Y Bookheimer. "Your brain on Google: brain activation pattern in the Internet search process." American Journal of Psychiatry: Official Journal of the American Society of Psychiatry. 17.2 (2009): 116 - 126. Print
In any case, Karp is not worried that the use of important Internet may rebuild his brain. "Everything has changed our brains," he said. "This is the role of the brain, it is constantly changing and adapting to every experience, which is almost self-explanatory:" The Internet has changed our brains and its processes "is a single source of information However, it will be difficult to say, "We are getting worse" when we decide to make a value. "When we finished the conversation, I had a vision, he desperately pinned my blog to the website pdf, I am not sure."
Did the Internet change our brains? It seems unlikely for me, but I will leave this question to the biologist of evolution theory. As a writer, thinker, researcher, and teacher, I can prove that the Internet is changing our thinking habits. That is not the same as changing our brains. The brain is the same as other muscles - if you do not stretch it, it is stiff and slacky. But if you exercise regularly and cross train, your brain will be flexible, fast, strong and versatile. In a sense, the Internet resembles a weight training machine in the brain, compared to the free weights provided by libraries and books. Each method has its advantages, but if used properly, one method will not work. Weight machines are informative and responsive. They encourage you to think that you are working hard without challenging yourself. The Internet can be the same. It communicates to us that we think, know disseminate information, and that it is nonsense.
Starting the day on the Internet may cause my head to hurt. Also, attention may be compromised if you start the day with the device. This is the reason I read a physical book and started writing them on my notebook. Everyone checks e-mails and does not change the world. So why do you want to start a new day? Regardless of whether you are writing a book, generating income for your company, or losing weight, whatever we want to achieve, there are only a few activities that can be promoted. Ignoring these activities makes you busy, but it is not productive. Productivity is not about the time you spend something, but about the quality of time that you spend something. The quality of time is determined almost entirely by one's ability, the a