Researchers: Digital devices deprive brain of needed downtime

Mobile phones have become mature computers with high-speed Internet connections in recent years, making the minimum time frame interesting and potentially productive. The New York Times reports that people give up downtime as they are busy with digital inputs, thereby learning more about information or learning new ideas. . At the University of California San Francisco scientists discovered that their brains show a new pattern of activity when they have new experiences such as exploring areas that are unfamiliar to the mouse. However, only when the mouse is absent from their exploration, they deal with these patterns in a way that seems to produce persistent memory. Researchers doubt that these findings apply to human learning as well. Lauren Frank, associate professor of the physiology of the university, says, "It is almost certain that down time will make it possible for the brain to transcend its experience, to integrate them and turn them into permanent long-term memory," Told. . He said that he believes that when the brain is constantly being stimulated, "You will quit this learning process."

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.