Jedd RSS



Project Coordinator CORE Education New Zealand

Twitter

EDTalks

Archive

Dec
6th
Sat
permalink

Technology is rewiring our brains, claim boffins

Dr. Gary Small, a psychiatrist at UCLA, argues that daily exposure to digital technologies such as the internet and smart phones can alter how the brain works.

When the brain spends more time on technology-related tasks and less time exposed to other people, it drifts away from fundamental social skills like reading facial expressions during conversation, Small asserts.

Other points of view included; from nzherald