Tuesday, October 14, 2008

This website is good for your brain!

Well, maybe not all of it. But a new study suggests middle-aged (no, not me) and elderly (still not me) internet users can boost their brain power by doing a little web-surfing every day.

UPDATE: On the other hand, Newsweek revealed this week how digital media rewires our personal hard drives:
"Internet use enhances the brain's capacity to be stimulated, and that Internet reading activates more brain regions than printed words. The research adds to previous studies that have shown that the tech-savvy among us possess greater working memory (meaning they can store and retrieve more bits of information in the short term), are more adept at perceptual learning (that is, adjusting their perception of the world in response to changing information), and have better motor skills."

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