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Short-term Internet search using makes people rely on search engines when facing unknown issues

The Internet search engines, which have powerful search/sort functions and ease of use features, have become an indispensable tool for many individuals. The current study is to test whether the short-term Internet search training can make people more dependent on it. Thirty-one subjects out of forty...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yifan, Wu, Lingdan, Luo, Liang, Zhang, Yifen, Dong, Guangheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176325
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author Wang, Yifan
Wu, Lingdan
Luo, Liang
Zhang, Yifen
Dong, Guangheng
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description The Internet search engines, which have powerful search/sort functions and ease of use features, have become an indispensable tool for many individuals. The current study is to test whether the short-term Internet search training can make people more dependent on it. Thirty-one subjects out of forty subjects completed the search training study which included a pre-test, a six-day’s training of Internet search, and a post-test. During the pre- and post- tests, subjects were asked to search online the answers to 40 unusual questions, remember the answers and recall them in the scanner. Un-learned questions were randomly presented at the recalling stage in order to elicited search impulse. Comparing to the pre-test, subjects in the post-test reported higher impulse to use search engines to answer un-learned questions. Consistently, subjects showed higher brain activations in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex in the post-test than in the pre-test. In addition, there were significant positive correlations self-reported search impulse and brain responses in the frontal areas. The results suggest that a simple six-day’s Internet search training can make people dependent on the search tools when facing unknown issues. People are easily dependent on the Internet search engines.
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spelling pubmed-54047672017-05-12 Short-term Internet search using makes people rely on search engines when facing unknown issues Wang, Yifan Wu, Lingdan Luo, Liang Zhang, Yifen Dong, Guangheng PLoS One Research Article The Internet search engines, which have powerful search/sort functions and ease of use features, have become an indispensable tool for many individuals. The current study is to test whether the short-term Internet search training can make people more dependent on it. Thirty-one subjects out of forty subjects completed the search training study which included a pre-test, a six-day’s training of Internet search, and a post-test. During the pre- and post- tests, subjects were asked to search online the answers to 40 unusual questions, remember the answers and recall them in the scanner. Un-learned questions were randomly presented at the recalling stage in order to elicited search impulse. Comparing to the pre-test, subjects in the post-test reported higher impulse to use search engines to answer un-learned questions. Consistently, subjects showed higher brain activations in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex in the post-test than in the pre-test. In addition, there were significant positive correlations self-reported search impulse and brain responses in the frontal areas. The results suggest that a simple six-day’s Internet search training can make people dependent on the search tools when facing unknown issues. People are easily dependent on the Internet search engines. Public Library of Science 2017-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5404767/ /pubmed/28441408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176325 Text en © 2017 Wang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Short-term Internet search using makes people rely on search engines when facing unknown issues
title_sort short-term internet search using makes people rely on search engines when facing unknown issues
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176325
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