Are cellphones and the internet rewiring our brains?
May 21, 2007
By Sabrina Saccoccio, CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/internet-brain.html

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Try reading this article to the end without checking e-mail. Find you
can't? Before making assumptions of addictive behaviour, you should know
there's a positive side to switching tasks often.

You may actually be training your brain to become faster and stronger.

Studies are beginning to show that cellphone-toting execs and
Facebook-friendly teens may be multi-tasking their way into taking on even
more, by rewiring their brains to handle it.

The action of using a cellphone or e-mail has an immediate affect on the
brain. Answering calls and thumbing texts prepares the human brain to take
on such tasks — because its circuitry adapts to the environment it's
presented with.