See Mom? It's NOT Wasting Their Brains
If you're still trying to convince your elders that listening to a music player while surfing the Internet while playing a video game is NOT causing cerebral cells to flake away like dandruff, here's your proof: multi-tasking of the young and the wireless (today's eighth most-popular blog link) can help keep young minds young, especially if the owners of the brains that run those minds are bilingual. That's the gist of a recent study of University of Toronto multi-taskers. Seems that quick-thinking and sharp reflexes -- the very skills demanded by gaming and electronic gadgetry -- make Jack (and Jill) a smarter boy (and girl), not duller. "I am bilingual. I play video games. Fear me!" boasts one blogger. "Games are good for you!" crows Sonic Nonsense. Engadget's Social Software blog calls it what it is: "advantages of ADD in the tech world." Wait, what'd he say? I was paying attention to the invading aliens...
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by Sue MacDonald at February 13, 2006 05:48 PM
Category: The vast electric lunchroom
