Internet Use Improves Brainpower

TrafficProducer · #1 (**permalink**) 10-16-2008, 07:45 PM

Searching online is better than reading books for increasing the brainpower of middle-aged and older adults, new research indicates.

A University of California Los Angles team of scientists found searching on the Internet stimulates parts of the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning.
The findings come from a study of 24 volunteers aged 55 to 76 who were asked to either search online or read while their brains were scanned using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Are we that clever? Note the age group.

nickyoung · #2 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 07:32 PM

I hope I am not middle aged yet..but why just middle-aged and older...they need to test it on kids to find out if this is doing good or bad things.

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