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by toddmorey·1y ago·view on hn ↗
Yes but is that genuine atrophy... or applying that part of your brain power to other things? Has anyone actually studied this? I sort of like that I can concentrate more on the podcast playing without worrying if I'm about to miss my left turn.
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"Given that the sample was primarily undergraduate students, many participants were unreachable or had moved away from the city three years after initial testing, and therefore a small subset of 13 participants (4 women, 9 men; mean age: 28.46 ± 3.93 years old; Table 1) came back for a follow-up assessment"

I'd file this under more research needed.

Brain to power doom scrolling? Let's be real, by using LLM's we are not taking higher order tasks but just chasing dopamine.