e person telling you wants you to be worried. But does a cultural change like this necessarily lead to a fundamental change to the brain?Р The appeals to neural plasticity, backed by studies showing that new changes can anize the brain, are largely irrelevant. The basic plan of the brain's "shaping" is ically determined long before a child discovers Facebook and Twitter. There is simply no experimental evidence to show that living with digital culture fundamentally changes anization in a way that affects one's ability to focus. Of course, the brain changes any time we form a memory or learn a new skill, but new skills build on our existing capacities without fundamentally changing them. We will no more lose our ability to pay attention than we will lose our ability to listen, see or speak.
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