Altering Our Brains Via The Internet

The internet has not only changed the way we live, play and work, it’s also had a significant impact on how our brains operate. According to a researcher out of UCLA, named Gary Small, use of the internet for web searching has caused our brains to be become better equip for filtering data and making on-the-spot choices.

The researcher professes that those of future generations will be likely to have a stronger level of technological as well as social abilities due to our new high-tech lifestyles. The study included two dozen persons with differing internet experience levels. Results were that when compared to new web users, those who are considered advanced internet patrons displayed two times the activity in the parts of the brain that manage decision-making and high-level reasoning.

However, the results were not all positive. Gary Small also reported that those considered to be advanced internet users tend to have higher rates of ADD diagnosis. This could be in part because those persons are so used to consistently scanning for new information. Of course, a lot more research needs to be done in order to validate these claims.