Study: Multimedia Multitasking May Be Shrinking Human Brains

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.

Comments

Oh crap

[ArcadeMan]

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?

Re:Oh crap

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Moths

[nblender]

That explains the fuzzy wings I recently developed...