Name: How Google Is Reshaping Your Brain
Uploaded: 2011-02-05T22:38:47-05:00
Duration: 7 min 28 s
Description: Whether search engines like Google and Bing make you stupider or smarter is largely up to you, explains psychiatrist Gary Small during Big Think’s Farsight 2011 event.

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Dr. Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute where he directs the Memory and Aging Research Center and the UCLA Center on Aging. Dr. Small[…]

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