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Anything we do daily will "rewire our brains" ... unfortunately, nothing practical can be done with these results, and scientists still really don't know how to

• aaronblohowiak 18y ago
  Creating an fMRI archive for later historical studies could be interesting.
• DaniFong 18y ago
  As a first guess, which the researchers themselves offer, the marker of internet savvy that they found was the frontal lobe processing, which is roughly that used in decision making, synthesis, and discrimination, is invoked. In other words, during internet search, savvy users constantly assessing the credibility of sources and validity of answers. This gives directly two principles which Google has used to dominate the market: authority, as encoded in page rank, and the swift checking of relevance and credibility, as helped by the short blurbs of relevant text, the back-links to similar pages or pages that link to it, and the quick viewing enabled by Google cache and 'view as html.' Anything further improving these processes would likely be a significant improvement in user experience.
  • psyklic 18y ago
    >> In other words, during internet search, savvy users constantly assessing the credibility of sources and validity of answers. You're extrapolating too much from what was found! I think you'd be surprised just how little frontal lobe activation actually reveals.
    • DaniFong 18y ago
      It's a strength of the scientific method that one can offer a hypothesis without believing it. In any case, there are additional cognitive tests which one can use to examine the actual behavior from a different angle.