Then again, reading online is a relatively recent phenomenon, and a generation of readers who grow up consuming everything on the screen may simply be more adept at online reading than people who were forced to switch from print. The book cites many studies that indicate that online reading yields lower comprehension than reading from a printed page. Would You Process This Information Better On Paper? the more adept we become at that mode of thinking." And so the more time we spend surfing, and skimming, and scanning. "They're very malleable, they adapt at the cellular level to whatever we happen to be doing. "Neuroscientists and psychologists have discovered that, even as adults, our brains are very plastic," Carr explains. This chronic state of distraction "follows us" Carr argues, long after we shut down our computers. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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