Texting and mails can chew up the brain
April 22nd 2011 08:15
Modern technology could be damaging our minds by bombarding us with too much information, according to a new research.
The development of smart phones means we are becoming more adept at multi-tasking our way through life, as we switch between texts and emails.
But, evidence suggests that the constant demand to deal with multiple sources of information is weakening our ability to screen out irrelevant data and prioritise what is important Researchers at Stanford University in California have already discovered that multi- tasking can impede long- term memory.
But now a team from University of California ( San Francisco) has concluded that multi- tasking can also hamper short-term memory performance, especially among older adults.
There are also concerns of technology addiction, with users unable to stop checking their messages or sending out updates.
Youngsters now spend an average of seven hours and 38 minutes on entertainment media per day, but because they are often using more than one medium at one time, they actually absorb about ten hours and 45 minutes of content in 24 hours.
Five years ago, research suggested teenagers spent six hours and 21 minutes squeezing in eight hours and 33 minutes of content.
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