As our brain is plastic and remoulds itself in accordance to our daily activities, prolonged computer use can have a profound effect on the way we think, feel and behave. We can learn to react more quickly to visual stimuli and improve many forms of attention. We develop a better ability to sift through large amounts of information rapidly and decide what’s important and what isn’t. In this way, we adapt to cope with the massive amounts of information appearing and disappearing on our mental screens from moment to moment.
- - Dr Gary Small of UCLA in “What the web is teaching our brains,” November 24, 2009.
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