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'It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell': Screens are assaulting our Stone Age brains with more information than we can handle

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Richard Cytowic argues in his new book, "Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload" He says the human brain has not changed significantly since the Stone Age, which leaves us poorly equipped to handle the influence and allure of modern technologies.

By 2011 , Americans took in five times as much information on a typical day as they had twenty-five years earlier .

Richard Cytowic : The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age.

He says we pay a price in terms of energy cost incurred by constantly shifting and refocusing attention.

Exceeding it results in foggy thinking, reduced focus, thought blocking, memory lapse or memory lapse.

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