Thursday, May 7, 2009

Smarter After Surfing?

Can Google searches benefit your brain? The UCLA Center on Aging says yes.

Volunteer subjects aged 55-74 who regularly web-surfed underwent MRI scans. The results showed that specific brain regions were activated by online browsing in ways they weren't by reading.

Seems that frontal lobe stimulation--home to complex reasoning--is stronger when logging on.

Query on.

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