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Information overload? Heavy multimedia users are more easily distracted by irrelevant information
Posted by Ed Yong on August 24, 2009
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Our minds are battlegrounds where different media fight for attention. Through the Internet, desktops, mobile screens, TVs and more, we are constantly awash with headlines, links, images, icons, videos, animations and sound. This is the way of the 21st century – a saturated sensory environment where multi-tasking is the name of the game. Even as…
Bilingual infants have better mental control
Posted by Ed Yong on April 14, 2009 Learning a new language as an adult is no easy task but infants can readily learn two languages without obvious difficulties. Despite being faced with two different vocabularies and sets of grammar, babies pick up both languages at the same speeds as those who learn just one. Far from becoming confused, it seems that babies…