2023-03-03 18:00:27 711
In the digital era, smart phones and the Internet have completely penetrated into everyone's daily life. Growing up in the information age, "digital aborigines" have used their thumbs to control smart phones and internet for a long time, changing the way the brain forms neural pathways, adapting to fragmented information and making better use of network resources, but their ability to make offline friends is becoming weaker and weaker.
Touching the phone with your thumb is equivalent to playing the violin? Professor Gosh of the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, drew an interesting conclusion by comparing the relationship between human thumb movement and brain in the digital era with violinists. They invited 37 heavy users of mobile phones, including 26 using smart touch screen phones and 11 using ordinary button phones. They connected 62 electrodes to the heads of the participants and tested the response of the cerebral cortex when their thumb, index finger and middle finger were moving. The results showed that the higher activity of thumb control related areas in the cerebral cortex was found in people who used touch screen phones, while there was no significant change in those who used button phones. The more you use mobile phones, the stronger the signals in the cerebral cortex. This can be regarded as the "use in and discard out" of the brain - when violinists improve their musical instruments, their brains will also show corresponding changes.
More and more studies have shown that with the powerful search function of intelligent terminals, many processes that originally required brain thinking are now completed by moving fingers. Nicholas Carr, an American scholar, once wrote an article entitled "Does Google make us stupid". As a columnist, he admitted that his reading habits have changed a lot with the penetration of Google's "everywhere". "I used to like reading long articles, but now with search, I start to look only at the essence and sometimes end up looking at only two or three lines. Our way of thinking has changed, and we will become more lazy, even stupid. Because our brains spend less time thinking and more time searching." This change will even change our writing habits, Nicholas Carr wrote: "In the past, I would usually write a rough outline on paper, and then formally write an article. This is a habit I have formed since the time of journalism school. But now it is rare. In the long run, the mode of thinking will certainly change." The survey showed that the younger generation spent more time on smart devices than real interpersonal communication in real life. They rely on online social networks, just like eating and sleeping.
