{"id":117700,"date":"2020-12-28T04:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/wait-what-new-research-says-internet-use-is-killing-your-memory"},"modified":"2020-12-28T04:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T12:22:56","slug":"wait-what-new-research-says-internet-use-is-killing-your-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/wait-what-new-research-says-internet-use-is-killing-your-memory","title":{"rendered":"Wait, What? New Research Says Internet Use Is Killing Your Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wait-what-new-research-says-internet-use-is-killing-your-memory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t sound good. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The scientists put hundreds of participants through memory and cognitive tasks as well as brain scans, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/wps.20617\">the research<\/a>, published last month in the journal <em>World Psychiatry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Firth, the Western Sydney University scientist who led the project, described in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nicm.edu.au\/news\/research_reveals_how_the_internet_may_be_changing_the_brain\">press release<\/a> how the internet\u2019s design is changing both the structure and abilities of the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201climitless stream of prompts and notifications from the Internet encourages us towards constantly holding a divided attention,\u201d said Firth, \u201cwhich then in turn may decrease our capacity for maintaining concentration on a single task.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn\u2019t sound good. \ud83d\ude03 The scientists put hundreds of participants through memory and cognitive tasks as well as brain scans, according to the research, published last month in the journal World Psychiatry. Joseph Firth, the Western Sydney University scientist who led the project, described in a press release how the internet\u2019s design is changing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}