UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small says processing digital information can rewire your brain’s circuits. As we will discuss later in this semester, this occurs in a process called neuronal plasticity.
Neuronal plasticity rearranges the connections between cells in our brains. This happens in all learning and describes how each of us can have different memories, areas of expertise etc. Now for the first time, changes in anatomy are being used to describe generational gaps. Younger “digital natives” are actually thinking different due to familiarity with technology.
Small, relects on this and a growing body of research in his new book “iBRAIN: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind.”
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