tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post6308030029511598234..comments2024-03-28T09:41:15.454-05:00Comments on Deric's MindBlog: Texting, surfing, studying...Deric Bowndshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-75791452865878070602009-10-19T17:52:12.766-05:002009-10-19T17:52:12.766-05:00The article questions why youth seems to have an a...The article questions why youth seems to have an advantage over us older adults when it comes to oscillating between cognitive tasks... it would be my guess that if with each new experience we are subjected to, a neural bud is generated to accomodate the experience... generation of neural buds would be much more rapid in the youth than with older adults who generate new cell growth more slowly.<br /><br />But the argument still ensues on whether or not neural regeneration occurs at all... but I believe we do. :-)PsychFuguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338514704662370030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-39323823401821809822009-10-15T20:56:24.081-05:002009-10-15T20:56:24.081-05:00I found that bit about watching a movie while stud...I found that bit about watching a movie while studying interesting, as in interesting/weird. It's partly that I don't find most movies very interesting anyway, I tend to loose interest in the characters and spend my time meta-viewing the art direction, cinematography, scripting decisions, etc. Should I ever make it to Hell I expect to find that the walls are actually large screens with recent Hollywood output running continuously. <br /><br />But what I really can't understand is that you could, or even would want to, watch a movie without giving it most of your attention. Maybe this is more a case of being a media immigrant that a digital immigrant: I grew up in a house where we watched only a little TV, and didn't have the TV on unless we actually wanted to watch something.Jim Birchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07415199338332642534noreply@blogger.com