{"id":1517,"date":"2016-12-27T17:20:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2017-12-31T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T16:05:56","slug":"does-internet-use-rewire-adolescent-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/does-internet-use-rewire-adolescent-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Internet Use &#8220;Rewire Adolescent Brains&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdobeStock_80617305_Credit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1523 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdobeStock_80617305_Credit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_80617305_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdobeStock_80617305_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdobeStock_80617305_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynlmills.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Mills<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1364661314001065\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a>: we&#8217;ve got a lot of anecdotes, but not a lot of <em>evidence<\/em>, suggesting that internet use is meaningfully changing &#8212; much less damaging &#8212; adolescent brains.<\/p>\n<p>For example: <a href=\"http:\/\/ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/1479-5868-10-9\" target=\"_blank\">one study<\/a> that Mills cites tracks 908 adolescents for 2 years, and finds no meaningful correlation between an increase in World Wide Web surfing and a reduction in\u00a0free time physical activity. In other words: the couch potato stereotype might exist more on TV drama than in reality.<\/p>\n<p>In brief: although our teacherly instincts might warn us that the Web has\u00a0drastically \u00a0changed adolescent cognitive or social abilities, researchers haven&#8217;t yet found much evidence to confirm these fears.<\/p>\n<p>To see Kathryn&#8217;s earlier articles for this blog, click\u00a0<span style=\"color: #61bdfa;\"><a style=\"color: #61bdfa;\" href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/author\/kathryn-mills\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our very own Kathryn Mills says: we&#8217;ve got a lot of anecdotes, but not a lot of evidence, suggesting that internet use is meaningfully changing &#8212; much less damaging &#8212; adolescent brains. For example: one study that Mills cites tracks 908 adolescents for 2 years, and finds no meaningful correlation between an increase in World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,19,29],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-high-school","tag-skepticism","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}