Summary Of The Shallows By Nicholas Carr

Chapter seven on Nicholas Carr’s Novel “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain,” is basically describing how does the brain gets affected by the use of new technological search engines such as computers, smartphones, including the internet. The internet in here is the main point because it’s used in those search engines. It engage the majority of human being in its daily uses, which affect the brain of those users. Although their brain are affected by the transformation of their sensory stimuli, the activity their brain have are less accelerated compared to those who are not using the internet. As Carr developed, the internet user’s reading and learning skills are affected through the lack of sensory memory, visual processing, languages and so on…. It …show more content…
The learning process goes along with the memory, which John Sweller, an Australian educational psychologist developed in his research about “how our minds process information and how we can learn.” (123) Sweller went into a specific research about long term and short term memory. As the sort term memory is the working memory while using the internet to build knowledge for net users they are overwhelming it not getting much in their learning. Net users tend to spend hours and sometime more just for a specific research. [The more we stay in it the more information we want to get](118), in which they ending spending more time not moving on. Therefore the seat of understanding, long term memory have not received anything. However, our learning and reading it’s really important for the build of our knowledge. For so, the internet uses must be reduce by many of us because it’s not helping into our evolution. Reason why those two studies does matter because the use of the internet now days have a heavy “neurological consequence” (120) in transforming our brain