{"id":4329,"date":"2018-03-08T18:07:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2018-03-08T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T02:26:32","slug":"they-never-told-me-my-smartphone-would-make-me-stupid-learn-more-about-how-having-a-digital-device-in-your-vicinity-diminishes-thinking-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2018\/03\/08\/they-never-told-me-my-smartphone-would-make-me-stupid-learn-more-about-how-having-a-digital-device-in-your-vicinity-diminishes-thinking-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"They never told me my smartphone would make me stupid &#8211; learn more about how having a digital device in your vicinity diminishes thinking skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5403814\/\"><strong>Although limited in scope, emerging research shows that the mere presence of a smart phone can limit your thinking skills (AKA cognitive abilities) learn more<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;These authors found that higher media-multitasking among a large adolescent sample was associated with poorer performance on one laboratory measure of executive function, the n-back working memory task, and also with lower scores on a standardized test of academic achievement in the classroom. Taken together, this body of work suggests that the degree to which one can exert executive control over behavior and maintain goal-related representations (in working memory) may explain individual differences in vulnerability to the \u201creal life\u201d consequences of mobile device habits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2018\/03\/08\/they-never-told-me-my-smartphone-would-make-me-stupid-learn-more-about-how-having-a-digital-device-in-your-vicinity-diminishes-thinking-skills\/fpux3omk6vaj5guhajfzfb6jma\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4333\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2018\/03\/FPUX3OMK6VAJ5GUHAJFZFB6JMA-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2018\/03\/FPUX3OMK6VAJ5GUHAJFZFB6JMA-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2018\/03\/FPUX3OMK6VAJ5GUHAJFZFB6JMA-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2018\/03\/FPUX3OMK6VAJ5GUHAJFZFB6JMA-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2018\/03\/FPUX3OMK6VAJ5GUHAJFZFB6JMA-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2018\/03\/FPUX3OMK6VAJ5GUHAJFZFB6JMA.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although limited in scope, emerging research shows that the mere presence of a smart phone can limit your thinking skills (AKA cognitive abilities) learn more &#8220;These authors found that higher media-multitasking among a large adolescent sample was associated with poorer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2018\/03\/08\/they-never-told-me-my-smartphone-would-make-me-stupid-learn-more-about-how-having-a-digital-device-in-your-vicinity-diminishes-thinking-skills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}