What is the internet really doing to our brains? This is the first thing that I asked myself while reading the title. As I 'm sitting here typing on a computer I think to my self, am I getting dumber by the minute? or is this in some way helping me? Nicholas Carr has a very particular argument for Gary Small, who has been studying the effect of digital media to our brains.
"The current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicate but is rapidly and profoundly altering our brains" says Small. Nicholas Carr 's argument is based on the work of scientist studying online reading, the memory and attention that our brains are very capable of. This experiment was the first one launched in 2008 by small and two …show more content…
Both of them aimed at different subjects. She had groups basically read a passage and then she tested the readers ' comprehension by asking them to write a summary of what they have read in the passage, then they continued on to a multi choice test over what they have read. She found that more people were more attentive towards the links, and weather or not to click on them. Rather than focusing on what they 're reading. " Reading and comprehension require establishing relationships between concepts, drawing inferences, activating prior knowledge, and synthesizing main ideas. Disorientation or cognitive activities of reading and comprehension" stated Zhu. After continuing on and reading the rest of the researchers using applied cognitive research on their test subjects, I realized that they all have different out comes.
In conclusion to what the internet is doing to our brains, I have one last questions, What are the characteristics of the internet? And How do they affect our brains? My answer for this is according to Gary Small 's research is that when he went back and re did the research with the same people, the ones who showed barely any activity in their dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,
"The current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicate but is rapidly and profoundly altering our brains" says Small. Nicholas Carr 's argument is based on the work of scientist studying online reading, the memory and attention that our brains are very capable of. This experiment was the first one launched in 2008 by small and two …show more content…
Both of them aimed at different subjects. She had groups basically read a passage and then she tested the readers ' comprehension by asking them to write a summary of what they have read in the passage, then they continued on to a multi choice test over what they have read. She found that more people were more attentive towards the links, and weather or not to click on them. Rather than focusing on what they 're reading. " Reading and comprehension require establishing relationships between concepts, drawing inferences, activating prior knowledge, and synthesizing main ideas. Disorientation or cognitive activities of reading and comprehension" stated Zhu. After continuing on and reading the rest of the researchers using applied cognitive research on their test subjects, I realized that they all have different out comes.
In conclusion to what the internet is doing to our brains, I have one last questions, What are the characteristics of the internet? And How do they affect our brains? My answer for this is according to Gary Small 's research is that when he went back and re did the research with the same people, the ones who showed barely any activity in their dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,