Does Too Much Time Online Turn Your Brain to Mush?

I recently read an interesting article on CNN about all of the ways that spending too much time online can affect the brain. As a webmaster by trade, I certainly spend a lot of my days and nights on the internet. Is it all turning my brain to mush? Some interesting findings reported in the [...]

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Posted June 23, 2011 by MacLean Fitzgerald under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Neuroscience, Research studies

What do Gorillas Have to do with Multitasking?

If you have taken a college psychology course in the last 10 years or so, you may have seen this video of a selective attention task from Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. Watch the video before reading on.

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Posted September 22, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience