Brain plasticity and screen culture

‘Although most neuroscientists are familiar with the concept of what we call plasticity,’ she told me, ‘it might be that most people haven’t really grasped just how malleable their own brains are, how sensitive their brains are to the environment.’ Given that, she is fascinated by ‘how the unquestionably different environment of computer games and sustained exposure to a screen might change the brain in ways that have not happened before, because we’ve never had this kind of experience over sustained periods of time before.’

Saved 23 April 2015

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