Google’s Free Brain Gym?
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008A recent news article on a brain scanning study at UCLA suggests that using Google to search the web may in fact be great exercise for your brain. They looked at a brain reading a book (below to the left) and then using Google to search the web (below to the right).
[Source: Dr. Gary Small, UCLA via the San Francisco Chronicle]
Clearly additional stimulation while Googling. Perhaps it is not surprising that active search requires more mental energy than passive reading but there are still important implications for cognitive designers.
