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Influence of the Internet in the brain






 The network addicts have had in their brains changes similar to those that dependent on alcohol or drugs, suggests preliminary research. Specialists have scanned the brains of 17 young people addicted to the net and found alterations in the way as their brains were connected.


Researchers say the discovery could lead to new treatments for dependent behavior design. The Internet addiction is classified as a clinical disorder marked by the uncontrolled use of the network.




These new technologies (internet, social networks, mobile telephony) are radically changing the usual routines. About 10 years ago we had in memory easily dozens of phones from our family and friends. And if suddenly shuts down the battery of the phone it is now possible that not a single number can remember to communicate with a friend.


There is evidence that individuals who are socially more connected can delay memory loss in the elderly. For example with the use of Facebook, working memory can be stimulated and enhanced at any age, getting a huge impact in cognitive abilities and learning.



Episodic memory becomes less effective than before: activity that soon had the brain now is delegated to equipment, explains Allegri. At the same time, download part of the memory on the internet means that a person can now use their capabilities to process and interact much more diverse information. From this point of view the 'scanning' of everyday life has a positive effect and facilitates the working memory, insists.


This report, in addition to storing memories, helps us to use them to link data and solve problems.


The brains of children, by their relationship with new technologies and the evolution of man, have differences from the brains of previous generations, so it is essential to change the educational system, which is virtually obsolete.


We learned to accumulate data and how valuable was knowing many things. "However, the data are now accessible all the time, so that is no longer a value for the brain accumulate information".



The use of search engines Internet changes the brain

Search engines have a fundamental impact on the functioning of our brain. Experts called Google effect to the phenomenon whereby people have started to use the Internet as their database. In this way, computers and search engines have become a kind of system of external memory that can be accessed at will of the user and that the human memory is adapting.



The Internet search requires, in addition to introducing a number of concepts or ideas into a search engine so you throw effective results, know well raise concerns, thematic needs and the unknowns who have an issue.


According to some neurologists, it is not only the task of introducing a word into the search box. It is the fact of seeking what specifically is the ideal concept, what is the question that you should introduce, and, later, know to discern between what outcomes that responds to the specific question. And says that the sum of such investigative work gives as a result the development of certain areas of the brain, before little developed.


After multiple results of scanning, many internet users showed a significant brain activity during the task of reading, demonstrating a great functioning of the brain and the use of functions that control the language, reading, memory and Visual activities that are located in the temporal, parietal, occipital areas and other regions of the brain.


Scanners made during searches in the network showed a great activity in the frontal, temporal and angled areas of the brain. They are in charge of control decision-making and complex reasoning. Specific functions for the Group of adults of this generation and the previous ones, had been difficult to demonstrate and develop through other activities.


The results of the study are encouraging. Computerized technologies could have psychological effects and potential benefits for the middle-aged and the elderly. The Internet search involves a complicated brain activity, which could help to exercise and improve brain functioning.



Deep thought

But, on the other hand, indicates, our great technological revolution has immersed us in a State of continuous partial attention.


Internet changes the brain
the Internet is a great tool for the mind, because it helps us to find and share information very quickly and efficiently. But we sacrifice the capacity for reading and deep thinking in exchange for our ability to jump quickly between many small pieces of information.



This activity of memorization ultimately can help people improve their understanding, because memory is much more than the memorization, and the Google effect allows us to free up more space in our brains for more oriented to information processing.



In this way we could observe the Act of checking the State of a friend and their updates on Facebook was a significant predictor of the verbal IQ. This is so because when a person is using Facebook you have to take into account the new information of his friend (i.e. the State of update) and discard the previous knowledge about said person.


"In this way is possible to use Facebook serve to enhance cognitive as working memory and verbal IQ capabilities".


In addition, Alloway is analyzing the impact of applications popular as YouTube and Twitter in working memory. According to the first results of the study, such applications would be decreasing this ability: "my findings indicate that these tools could be harming the capabilities of humans, that there is the possibility that this type of technology can damage our working memory because it encourages us to very brief and short activities." With Twitter, which is based on messages of 140 characters, we use very little information in each message.


Spelling and writing are also altering, and this is evident to the naked eye when looking at how write the younger.

This does not mean that they are diminishing linguistic capabilities, simply a change compared with the past.


The ability of doing many tasks at the same time is a new skill of human beings, encouraged by technologies.


They are also changing, altogether, the reading habits. "Every day is stronger the tendency of read superficially and scan visually a text in search of key words", says Small, who directs the Center for research on memory and aging at the University of California.Internet changes the brain


Scientists highlight the potential of the Internet as a tool for knowledge. The network offers the opportunity to host all computing, knowledge and communication there. In the end, it widely exceed the ability of biological human intelligence. Once the machines can do everything that humans do, it will be a powerful combination because it will combine with the ways in which machines are already superior. But we mix with this technology to make us more intelligent.