Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime

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I played three screens with Dianne Bates (40 years old) at 1 pm on Thursday. She listened to several songs on the iPod, then tapped a simple e - mail on the iPhone and pointed out the HDTV.

As a multitasking Bates woman, she quickly turns her legs in the downtown fitness center elliptical train. She is very nice. In the gym and others, people use mobile phones and other electronic equipment to end the work - and as a reliable antidote to get bored

Mobile phones have become mature computers with high-speed Internet connections in recent years, allowing people to reduce exercise, foodstuffs, parking lots, or intermittent boredom during dinner conversation.

This technology makes the minimum time frame interesting and potentially productive. However, scientists point out unexpected side effects. When people are busy with digital input, they give up downtime, so they can better learn and memorize information, or come up with new ideas.

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Science shows us many times of our busy brains, and we urgently need more downtime. "Downtime is essential for complementing the brain's attention and motivation, promoting productivity and creativity, achieving our highest level of performance, and creating a stable memory in our daily life," Scientific American Ferris Jabr wrote. . Sounds good. Mandy Menaker, 26-year-old marketer living in Brooklyn, will be able to get rid of the benefits of living alone soon. They provide enough room for a crash. But she said that the best is not to apologize for the dog.

The need for mental work stoppage is well documented. Scientific Americans wrote as follows. "Downtime complements the attention and motivation of the brain, promoting productivity and creativity is essential for achieving our highest level of performance and forming a stable memory in everyday life. The moment of interruption is a moral compass of human work instructions and maintains self-awareness. "You can not be a complete self unless you shift work and rest your brain.

For the most part of the 20th century, many scientists thought that the idea that the brain might be productive during shutdown was unreasonable. German neuroscientist Hans Berger opposed this. After extensive research using EEG in 1929, he invented a device to record electrical impulses in the brain by placing an electrode mesh on the scalp. His colleagues acknowledge that certain parts of the brain and spinal cord must constantly coordinate the lungs and heart, but when someone is not concentrating on a specific psychological task, the brain is basically off I believe there is a machine state; activities picked up by EEG or other equipment at rest are mainly random noise.