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Exploring the Impact of Internet Use on Memory and Attention Processes
The rapid uptake of the internet has provided a new platform for people to engage with almost all aspects of life. As such, it is currently crucial to investigate the relationship between the internet and cognition across contexts and the underlying neurobiological mechanisms driving this. We descri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7766706/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33348890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249481 |
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author | Firth, Josh A. Torous, John Firth, Joseph |
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description | The rapid uptake of the internet has provided a new platform for people to engage with almost all aspects of life. As such, it is currently crucial to investigate the relationship between the internet and cognition across contexts and the underlying neurobiological mechanisms driving this. We describe the current understanding of this relationship across the literature and outline the state of knowledge surrounding the potential neurobiological drivers. Through focusing on two key areas of the nascent but growing literature, first the individual- and population-level implications for attention processes and second the neurobiological drivers underpinning internet usage and memory, we describe the implications of the internet for cognition, assess the potential mechanisms linking brain structure to cognition, and elucidate how these influence behaviour. Finally, we identify areas that now require investigation, including (i) the importance of the variation in individual levels of internet usage, (ii) potential individual behavioural implications and emerging population-level effects, and the (iii) interplay between age and the internet–brain relationships across the stages of development. |
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spelling | pubmed-77667062020-12-28 Exploring the Impact of Internet Use on Memory and Attention Processes Firth, Josh A. Torous, John Firth, Joseph Int J Environ Res Public Health Review The rapid uptake of the internet has provided a new platform for people to engage with almost all aspects of life. As such, it is currently crucial to investigate the relationship between the internet and cognition across contexts and the underlying neurobiological mechanisms driving this. We describe the current understanding of this relationship across the literature and outline the state of knowledge surrounding the potential neurobiological drivers. Through focusing on two key areas of the nascent but growing literature, first the individual- and population-level implications for attention processes and second the neurobiological drivers underpinning internet usage and memory, we describe the implications of the internet for cognition, assess the potential mechanisms linking brain structure to cognition, and elucidate how these influence behaviour. Finally, we identify areas that now require investigation, including (i) the importance of the variation in individual levels of internet usage, (ii) potential individual behavioural implications and emerging population-level effects, and the (iii) interplay between age and the internet–brain relationships across the stages of development. MDPI 2020-12-17 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7766706/ /pubmed/33348890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249481 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Firth, Josh A. Torous, John Firth, Joseph Exploring the Impact of Internet Use on Memory and Attention Processes |
title | Exploring the Impact of Internet Use on Memory and Attention Processes |
title_full | Exploring the Impact of Internet Use on Memory and Attention Processes |
title_fullStr | Exploring the Impact of Internet Use on Memory and Attention Processes |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Impact of Internet Use on Memory and Attention Processes |
title_short | Exploring the Impact of Internet Use on Memory and Attention Processes |
title_sort | exploring the impact of internet use on memory and attention processes |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7766706/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33348890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249481 |
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