Surfing The Internet `IMPROVES DEVELOPMENT Of The BRAIN!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:42 pm

New research from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
shows that the Internet and technology is already changing the
development of the human mind. Gary Small, the director of the Memory
& Aging Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience
& Human Behavior and the Center on Aging at UCLA (phew...), has
found that activities such as text messaging and Internet searching
improves a person's ability to filter information, perform complex
reasoning, and make quick decisions.

Small warns, however, that these evolutionary advancements are
coming at the expense of face-to-face social skills and he warns of the
danger of Internet addiction. "The brain is very specialized in its
circuitry, and if you repeat mental tasks over and over, it will
strengthen certain neural circuits and ignore others," he says. He also
told Reuters in an interview that those who are able to combine both
the new technologically developed skills and traditional social
abilities will be the most successful in years to come.