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“ Like a muscle, the brain strengthens the part of itself that it uses the most. This isn’t new. Scientists can point to the invention of the hand-held tool hundreds of thousands of years ago, and a corresponding growth in the size of the frontal lobe. The Internet is really just a sophisticated hammer. What will future anthropologists find out about our brains?
ESPN - OTL: Test of Time - E-ticket
(The Internet is really just a sophisticated hammer.)
(via new-aesthetic)
“ ‘However a recent review paper has called into question much of the “success” of working memory training studies.[58] Shipstead et al. (2010) point out that working memory training studies are plagued with poor experimental design. The majority of training studies utilize a no-contact control group making it impossible to determine whether any benefit of training is due to actual improvement or a Hawthorne effect’
wikipedia - on ‘working memory’ ››
