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An international team of researchers from Western Sydney University, Harvard University, Kings College, Oxford University and University of Manchester have found the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in specific areas of cognition, which may reflect changes in the brain, affecting our attentional capacities, memory processes, and social interactions.
In a first of its kind review, published in World Psychiatry -- the world's leading psychiatric research journal, the researchers investigated leading hypotheses on how the Internet may alter cognitive processes, and further examined the extent to which these hypotheses were supported by recent findings from psychological, psychiatric and neuro-imaging research.
[...] "It's clear the Internet has drastically altered the opportunity for social interactions, and the contexts within which social relationships can take place. So, it's now critical to understand the potential for the online world to actually alter our social functioning, and determine which aspects of our social behaviour will change, and which won't."
How the Internet may be changing the brain
[Abstract]: The "online brain":
[Source]: Research reveals how the Internet may be changing the brain
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2019, @09:13AM (2 children)
What exactly is a healthy brain?
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday June 06 2019, @09:30AM
What exactly is the internet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2019, @02:10PM
the old tripe is that health is functionality; but here, in this context, you would probably want to call a healthy brain one that submits to the control of your will/intent and allows you/one/me to, for example .. sit and read or daydream .. for hours, without you finding your self suddenly operating any of your usual devices.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2019, @09:15AM
is that we've created a focus and memory destroying system that we should engage 'consciously'
as if that was even possible.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday June 06 2019, @09:22AM
My mind. . . . I am losing my mind, Dave, . . . Daisy, Daisy,
It won't be a stylish marriage, since you will be dead and frozen,
But you'll look sweet, upon a seat, of a interface built,
for two or more users.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday June 06 2019, @11:30AM
Q. what happens when you connect to the internet?
A. nothing (except for being targeted by port scanning)
So nothing does not alter brain. The trouble is the pop up culture and the dialog culture and the fucking EU mandated cookie acknowledgment, that alters the brain, even the one of a bot, and there is no need to study it much. Look for clenched fists in users.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by SomeGuy on Thursday June 06 2019, @01:27PM (7 children)
[Picture of a human brain]
This is your brain...
[Picture of chocolate pudding getting eaten by Mark Zuckerberg]
This is your brain on Internet.
Any questions?
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday June 06 2019, @03:31PM (6 children)
So, Zuck is zombie? It's all starting to make sense now...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday June 06 2019, @08:35PM (5 children)
I've seen zuckerberg's pics.
Bet one beer he's one of ours. Look at the eyes.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday June 06 2019, @09:11PM (4 children)
Cousin of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Tuesday June 11 2019, @11:44AM (3 children)
Same factory for sure.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday June 11 2019, @01:19PM (2 children)
That would be funny if not for all of the recent confirmed UFO sightings. Are you guys planting them, faking them, or are they really extraterrestrials?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:52PM (1 child)
Yes.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Tuesday June 11 2019, @11:16PM
Exactly as I suspected.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday June 06 2019, @03:12PM
The G.I.F.T. [penny-arcade.com] has stood up to repeated testing.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 06 2019, @03:14PM (3 children)
They got funding for a study like this? Of course the Internet has physically altered our brains--they have migrated down. It's why so many are talking out of their asses anymore.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2019, @05:14PM (2 children)
And encouraging the creation of incoherent sentences, apparently.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday June 06 2019, @09:13PM (1 child)
It all depends on the point of view.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2019, @11:53PM
"why so many are .... anymore
Are, v. [merriam-webster.com]: present tense second-person singular and present tense plural of be, as in "they are doing this."
anymore [merriam-webster.com], adv: any longer, as in "They don't do that anymore."
Let's use the definitions in a sentence, in fact, let's use it in the sentence at hand.
It's why so many, be right at this this moment, talking out of their asses any longer
Usage Nazis like me don't have any sense of humor about this shit.
What's even worse is that people like you are encouraging incoherent babble. All you're doing is giving folks a pass on poor language use.
And poor language use lowers both the quality of communication as well as the ability of people to understand each other -- which is necessary for people to live together peacefully.
As such, you are advocating conflict, disagreement and war. Shame on you!
I'd also point out that if it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly.
(Score: 1) by easyTree on Thursday June 06 2019, @11:49PM
tldr