Your stone age brain in the screen age : coping with digital distraction and sensory overload
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
616.8584/CYTOWIC,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 616.8584/CYTOWIC,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
DESCRIPTION

xviii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780262049009, 0262049007 :, 0262049007, 9780262049009
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Engineered Addiction: Brain Drain and "Virtual" Autism -- Selfies Kill More People than Sharks -- The Brain Energy Cost of Screen Distractions -- The Brain Energy Cost of Multitasking -- The Digital Difference: We Treat It Socially -- Silence Is an Essential Nutrient -- Your Brain Is a Hackable Change Detector -- What Gets Caught in the Corner of Your Eye -- Missing Critical Time Windows Degrades Empathy -- How Blue Screen Light Wrecks Normal Sleep -- Hooked in the Pursuit of Happiness -- Pandora's Box: How Ambivalence Keeps Us Hooked -- iPads in the Nursery or Not? -- Human Contact Traded for a Googlized Mind -- The Consequences of Forced Viewing -- Does Heavy Viewing Induce Autistic-Like Symptoms? -- Social Learning: Kindergarten, Handwriting, and Dexterity -- War Games: Is the Only Winning Move Not to Play? -- Coda: Lessons from the Lockdown Years

"An award winning neurologist considers the effect of social media and digital devices on our brains, especially our ability to pay attention"--