molly0xfff, (edited )

fascinating review of studies on Internet use and cognition — including potentially negative effects on concentration and memory — found by way of an excellent article in Nautilus titled "Viva la library"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502424

molly0xfff,
molly0xfff,

see if you can read the 11-page paper without task switching 😄

Eka_FOOF_A,
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@molly0xfff
I'm not sure I ever could have. Even back in the 1970s.

ianRobinson,
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@molly0xfff That’s crazy talk 😂

sageofredondo,
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@molly0xfff turn off your router and pretend data on your phone is $20 per megabyte. 😎

molly0xfff,

@sageofredondo sometimes when my power goes out i remember what it's like to have an attention span

jesseplusplus,
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@molly0xfff I was reading it on my phone and managed to get through it without task switching, but not for lack of attempts by my phone to distract me! I was feeling proud of myself for getting almost to the end without even thinking about task switching when 2 text message notifications came in 😅 Under normal circumstances I would have opened them, but I thought better of it given what I had just read

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