More work is needed to explain the findings, but the researchers suspect a two-way relationship underpins the results. In this scenario, people with better thinking skills are more likely to use digital devices, but there are also cognitive benefits to be had from embracing the technology.
This is bullcrap.
What, using smartphones is cognitively beneficial in old age? Like, the total opposite of young people, though?
Smart phones cognitively stunt young folks but improve cognitive ability for the older?
Something isn’t right here. Some information is missing or something.
That young brains are still highly actively developing, perhaps? Like why minors shouldn’t drink coffee or weed?
They said drinking coffee improves your bloodstream, so I drank 50 and got hospitalized. Lies and propaganda all the way!
There is no way that one thing can have positive and negative effects depending on context, good and bad are the only two categories to choose from.
Because for older people it’s about learning new things. I’ve just gotten my 80yo mum onto using a smart phone and it’s baby steps but she’s learning how to use it. She’s learning something new. Before I had a falling out with my father, he had a tantrum at me using big fancy words that he doesn’t understand, like app, play-store, email, dns, etc. If you can’t fix it with a spanner or hammer he doesn’t want anything to do with it, so he watches free2air tv, sips coffee and smokes weed; from what I can tell that’s all he does.
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