Jun 29
Study: just being close to your phone will impact your cognition (in a bad way)
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A smartphone connected to the Internet puts an immense amount of information at your fingertips and that’s a great thing. While the benefit of having such instant access to information is welcomed, the potential cognitive effects a phone’s presence may have on one’s mind isn’t. According to a newly published study coming from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs … Continue reading
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