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<\/a> Is our reliance on our smartphones helping us do more, or are we all really suffering from<\/strong> \u201cdigital amnesia\u201d?<\/strong> The jury is out on the exact effects that using our smartphones for (pretty much all of) our daily tasks has on our brains, its ability to retain information, and keep track of everything we try to stash in our heads, the Guardian<\/a> writes, citing neuroscientists and researchers. On the one hand, some argue that some smartphone functions that help us remember static data \u2014 such as phone numbers, appointments, etc \u2014 makes more \u201cspace\u201d available in our brains to use for other cognitive functions. However, others argue that the slope is far more slippery, saying that the less we rely on our brains, the less sharp they become, and that outsourcing certain brain functions is actually altering the physical composition of what is arguably our most important organ.<\/p>\n

\u201cDownloading\u201d our thoughts outside of our brains isn\u2019t anything new.<\/strong> It\u2019s just that it\u2019s become a more digitized process over the years. Prior to the advent of the technology that brought us smartphones and computers, humans typically jotted down their thoughts and reminders \u2014 whether grocery shopping lists, doctor appointments, or reminders to call someone back \u2014 using pen and paper, notes neuroscientist Chris Bird. This process of \u201cdownloading\u201d things from our brains to an \u201cexternal drive\u201d therefore isn\u2019t new and actually could, he argues, help make more brain power and space available to allocate to other functions, such as concentration and creativity.<\/p>\n

But there are also dangers to this approach:<\/strong> Other neuroscientists, such as McGill University professor Oliver Hardt, back the \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d argument. \u201cOnce you stop using your memory it will get worse, which makes you use your device even more,\u201d he tells the Guardian. A 2005 University of Waterloo study<\/a> supports this hypothesis: Researchers found that an excessive reliance on our smartphones for convenient information retrieval is connected to \u201clazy thinking,\u201d suggesting that there is actually a connection between \u201cheavy smartphone use and lowered intelligence,\u201d although there is no clear causal relationship established as of yet.<\/p>\n

Some smartphone functions are undermining our brains more than others:<\/strong> While just using convenient functions on our phones to remember things like a recipe ingredient list or where we parked our car in the mall garage may not necessarily be a major detriment to our memory ability, evidence is beginning to emerge that an over-reliance can begin to alter the physical structure of our brains. This effect is more likely to result from relying on our phones to carry out more complex functions, such as geographical mapping (read: using Google Maps all the time). Although relying on GPS to guide you to a completely new destination isn\u2019t the end of the world for your brain\u2019s gray matter, it is far healthier to engage in spatial behavior in geographical mapping. For example, understanding a map to be able to compute directions and decipher where certain points are requires spatial cognition that requires the hippocampus, a part of the brain that plays a critical role in our memory abilities.<\/p>\n

What does this all mean?<\/strong> Aside from the day-to-day nuances of forgetting a task on your to-do list, neuroscientists are growing more concerned that our over-reliance on smartphones is actually going to give rise to more degenerative brain diseases. An ongoing study<\/a> on adolescent brain cognitive development has indicated that young children with greater exposure to tech (such as smartphones and tablets) showed more cortical thinning \u2014 a process that is supposed to happen with age as part of the natural process of atrophy. Cortical thinning is connected to degenerative brain diseases<\/a> such as Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s, and dementia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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