Tech's Brain Effect: It's Complicated

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🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky.
0:33.0	Clearly technology is helping us research the brain, but how is the brain responding to technology?
0:40.0	NYU neuroscientist Alexandra Ochoa Cohen.
0:44.0	There's been a lot of mostly negative hype around this issue,
0:46.9	often referred to as screen time
0:48.9	and how it's ruining all of our lives.
0:51.1	And while there have been a few studies that have examined these
0:53.4	questions the truth is that everything we encounter changes our brains and we
0:58.2	just don't have the data right now to say how meaningful these changes actually
1:02.4	are.
1:03.0	Kone spoke March 21st at the Cooper Union in Manhattan
1:06.5	during a discussion called Our Brain on AI Artificial Intelligence.
1:11.6	Who's in control?
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