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The average young person spends more than eight hours each day using technology and much less time engaging in direct social contact. Our UCLA brain-scanning studies are showing that such repeated exposure to technology alters brain circuitry … Instead of the traditional generation gap, we’re witnessing the beginning of a brain gap that separates digital natives, born into 24/7 technology, and digital immigrants, who came to computers and other digital technology as adults.

This perpetual exposure to technology is leading to the next major milestone in brain evolution … Today, video-game brain, Intenet addiction and other technology side effects appear to be suppressing frontal-lobe executive skills and our ability to communicate face to face. Instead, our brains are developing circuitry for online social networking and are adapting to a new multitasking technology culture.

—Gary Small, M.D.
Director, UCLA Memory
& Aging Research Center

Related: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”