Living online is changing our brains, by Susan Greenfield

Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield cited evidence that digital technology is having an impact on our brains: Microstructure abnormalities in adolescents with internet addiction disorder, in the journal PLoS (free access). Increase in people with autistic spectrum disorders. The rise in the appeal of Twitter. (...) Know more at http://goo.gl/fMMUo.

How many objects can you hold in mind simultaneously?

Neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that cognitive capacity limitations (the ability to hold about four things in our minds at once) reflect a dual model of working memory. http://goo.gl/fjcF3.