Scientists have found that the bigger your Facebook friend roll is , the turgid your brain is .
Researchers at theUniversity College of Londonwanted to enquire whether hand - wringing over the Internet being bad for humans is really necessary . So they learn brain scans from 125 university students , all of whom were active Facebook users . They compared their Einstein to the sizing of the students ’ electronic connection of friend and found that the gray matter in students with lots of Facebook friend was more voluminous than in mass with fewer friends .
Gray topic is where the processing happens . Specifically , the amygdaloid nucleus , a region consort with memory and emotional responses , was larger in the friendier Facebook users .
An early cogitation showed the same brainpower - sizing association with number of real - world friends — but only in the amygdala .
Other region were magnanimous in relation to Facebook friends , but not substantial - life supporter . One case : the right superior temporal sulcus , which , interestingly , helps us perceive moving aim as biological and is relate with autism .
The scientist do n’t know whether the larger Einstein region are a consequence of having more friend , or if that particular gray thing might somehow facilitate having more protagonist , making friend hoarders hard wired to be more societal . Personally I ’d much rather don it ’s the former . I hate hard wiring ! variety is good .
“ The exciting question now is whether these structure exchange over fourth dimension — this will help us suffice the motion of whether the internet is changing our brains , ” said Ryota Kanai , the first author of the study , which is being publish in the October 19 issue of theProceedings of the Royal Society B. [ EurekAlert ]
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