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Study: Multimedia Multitasking May Be Shrinking Human Brains

Posted by samzenpus on from the idiot-device dept.

An anonymous reader writes It seems that switching between laptop, smart phone and tablet may be shrinking our brains and leaving us prone to higher levels of anxiety and stress reports new research from the University of Sussex in the UK. The researchers point out that the link is currently a correlation rather than a proof of causation, but they do suggest that people who used a higher number of media devices concurrently also had smaller grey matter density — in other words they have smaller brains.

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  1. Oh crap by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Web developers need to test their websites on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones all day long. We're as good as hot dog water sunshine, bread blue?

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    1. Re:Oh crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      It was already well-known that web developers were morons long before these devices became ubiquitous.

  2. Moths by Mr+D+from+63 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Moths are attracted to bright lights, and they have very small brains. I'm seeing some kind of correlation here......

    1. Re:Moths by nblender · · Score: 4, Funny

      That explains the fuzzy wings I recently developed...

  3. Re:This again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you sure it has been posted before? I don't recall it. Let me check my other notebook, my tablet, and my phone to be sure. Wait, what were we taking about again?