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Riconquistare la concentrazione: come vivere meglio nell’era della distrazione

Viviamo immersi in un flusso costante di stimoli. Ogni giorno siamo esposti a migliaia di notifiche, messaggi, email, pop-up, alert e richieste. Tutto corre, tutto vibra, tutto suona. In questa giungla digitale, la concentrazione è diventata un bene raro e prezioso, spesso più difficile da ottenere di quanto non lo sia la connessione Wi-Fi. Ma se i primi due articoli di questa serie hanno…

Riconquistare la concentrazione: come vivere meglio nell’era della distrazione

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Il multitasking ci rende meno produttivi: lo conferma la neuroscienza

Multitasking è un mito: cosa dice davvero la scienza

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Perché il tuo cervello non è fatto per il mondo digitale

Viviamo in un’epoca di avanzamenti tecnologici senza precedenti. Un mondo in cui le informazioni scorrono senza sosta, i messaggi arrivano in tempo reale e possiamo passare da un articolo di giornale sulla guerra a un video divertente oppure un acquisto online in meno di dieci secondi. È entusiasmante… ma anche estenuante. Probabilmente ti sei accorto (come me…) che è sempre più difficile…

Perché il tuo cervello non è fatto per il mondo digitale

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Adam Gazzaley is a neuroscientist at UC San Francisco, building video games and technologies to improve brain function and replace pharmaceutical drugs. Learn more about Adam and his work! Website-...

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Are We All Becoming Pavlov’s Dogs?

Are We All Becoming Pavlov’s Dogs?

Scenario 1: Your smartphone buzzes. Without a moment’s hesitation you grab it out of your pocket and check the alert: Was it an email? A test? A Facebook notification? Or just a phantom vibration?

Scenario 2: You looked at your phone a few minutes ago, but now you’re standing in line at the market and grab it to check for messages even though your phone has not beeped, vibrated, or flashed.

Scena…

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Video games could soon replace pills in treating some cognitive diseases

Furthest along is a game called "Project: EVO," which is currently at the last level of FDA approval as a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Akili, which is based in Boston, has also partnered with Pfizer to study how its games can detect evidence of Alzheimer's.

"Our goal here is not necessarily to boot out the pharmaceutical industry," said Adam Gazzaley, the founder and executive director of Neuroscape and an Akili board member. Rather, it's "to find new approaches that have better side effect profiles, that can be targeted in a more personal way, and then figure out how they can work with our current system," he said.

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Are We All Becoming Pavlov’s Dogs?

Are We All Becoming Pavlov’s Dogs?

Scenario 1: Your smartphone buzzes. Without a moment’s hesitation you grab it out of your pocket and check the alert: Was it an email? A test? A Facebook notification? Or just a phantom vibration?

Scenario 2: You looked at your phone a few minutes ago, but now you’re standing in line at the market and grab it to check for messages even though your phone has not beeped, vibrated, or flashed.

Scena…

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Here’s the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart playing drums with Ocuclus Rift

GlassBrain captures a live performance and real-time signals from Grateful Dead drummer's brain. http://goo.gl/GU00mN #Playistic