Google can make you smarter: new study

Using the Web is good for your brain: the BBC reports on a new study.  Scanning users' brains, a UCLA team finds literal brain stimulation.

"[E]merging computerised technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-aged and older adults...
  Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function."

Let's see how far this story goes, especially in sources accustomed to purveying the fearsome internet meme.

I like the nickname for older Web users: silver surfers.

(via Ed Webb)

Comments

[Kathleen Angier]

Wow, silver surfers... guess that's me, although I've only just discovered the world through this window. I feel like a toddler, lurching and bumbling and being tumbled by gravity. The good thing is no one knows how inadequate I am, but it's still fun and I'm learning. Kick ass blog, Bryan.

[Bryan Alexander]

Thank you, Kathleen, and welcome!