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Do the new technologies are rewriting our brains?

How the brain looks for someone looking for material in Google? All those hours you spend online; can rewrite the circuitry of our brains? These are questions that have been made psychiatrists and neurologists.
There are no firm answers, but Gary Small, a psychiatrist at the University of California, argues that the daily exposure to digital technologies like the Internet or smart phones can affect brain function.

When the brain spends more time on tasks related to technology and less social with other people, away from fundamental social skills such as reading facial expressions during a conversation, said Small.
So the brain circuits involved in face to face contact may become weaker. This can lead to social discomfort and an inability to interpret non-verbal language, including insulation.

According to Small, the effect is stronger in the "digital natives", or adolescents and those in their years who were born and reared in the digital age. According to Small, it is important that young people improve their social skills and improve higher technology skills.

The point is that since writing and reading we changed for thousands of years, not just our culture, how we see the world, how we express ourselves, but our brain circuits. Also in those days there were detractors, like Socrates, who warned that the written word would change the thinking.

The issue is that people are adapting to these new technologies and society as well. Take the good, the bad and leave. I will say that there are those who do not leave much, or seen in person with friends often, but you can say that now speak several times a day with different friends, and through new technologies could make new friends previously could not.

Neuroscientists believe that perhaps the new way of reading online can rewrite our brains, as it tends more to reading than to read a thorough and comprehensive, they say.
It is a matter of wait and see, any new technology is met with suspicion.

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