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Nicholas Carr

“[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds better than we used to be able to. But our “new strengths in visual-spatial intelligence” go hand in hand with a weakening of our capacities for the kind of “deep processing” that underpins “mindful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection.”

Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
tags: brain, science
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
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