Thursday, December 1, 2016

The Internet is changing the way we use our brains!


Easy access to the information highway via the Internet is changing our ability to learn, remember, and solve problems through the use of our brain, say researchers at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Illinois. The more you rely on the Internet to a kind of information, they add, the more likely to continue to use technology to collect new information in the future. With so much free information available, it is difficult for those who are studying this phenomenon, find out how much information comes from our brains these days, and how much is taken online.

In general, we develop habits that help us to solve problems, in the same way we have done in the past. These days, however, rather than use the information contained in our memories, we decide "signs" technology, where we can find the information easily in the future. The time between the submission of a question and getting an answer is much shorter when using the Internet than when using memory, and we are becoming increasingly dependent on technology to perform any task that involves the collection of information , preserving, and recovering it.
   

No matter how scary it may sound, this may not be a bad thing, because the technology of search engines is extremely efficient, and information obtained through research relevant to the Internet, can be more accurate and date than the information that we have through our own memories. Researchers ask themselves whether, and how, the use of the Internet for research, differs from the use of books or any other traditional source of information. In the study, participants who used Google for the answers were more accurate than those who relied on their memories.

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