This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.
[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that __very medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others._ Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the __idespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills._ We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds better than we used to be able to. But our __ew strengths in visual-spatial intelligence_ go hand in hand with a weakening of our capacities for the kind of __eep processing_ that underpins __indful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection.
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that __very medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others._ Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the __idespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills._ We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds better than we used to be able to. But our __ew strengths in visual-spatial intelligence_ go hand in hand with a weakening of our capacities for the kind of __eep processing_ that underpins __indful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection.
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