Google makes us all dumber: The neuroscience of search engines | Salon | October 2014 As search engines get better, we become lazier. We’re hooked on easy answers and undervalue asking good questions. “Google is known as a search engine, yet there is barely any searching involved anymore. The gap between a question crystallizing in your mind and an answer
How clutter affects you (and what you can do about it) | Crew | July 2013 On pain: “Your brain views the loss of one of your valued possessions as the same as something that causes you physical pain.” On tactility: “[T]he longer you touch an object, the greater the value you assign to it.” On stress: “Similar to what
Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren’t the same thing | PRI | September 2014 If you’ve given up on reading paper books for the ease of your e-reader’s screen, you may want to step back a bit. Neuroscience confirms that our brains use different areas to read on paper and screens, and you need to exercise both.
New study links smartphone use in students with increased anxiety and bad grades | The Independent | December 2013 The research from Kent State University looked at 500 students, noting that “high frequency cell phone users tended to have a lower GPA [academic scores], higher anxiety, and lower satisfaction with life relative to their peers who used the cell phone
Take Notes by Hand for Better Long-Term Comprehension | Association for Psychological Science | June 2014 The results revealed that while the two types of note-takers performed equally well on questions that involved recalling facts, laptop note-takers performed significantly worse on the conceptual questions. The notes from laptop users contained more words and more verbatim overlap with the lecture, compared