Good news: Apparently neither Google nor smartphones are frying our brains

By SharpBrains | September 13, 2016

—– Researchers look at how brain pow­er is affect­ed by dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies (CBC News): “…how much is our reliance on smart­phones as mem­o­ry aides affect­ing the way our brains work? Two psy­chol­o­gists from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Water­loo — Evan Risko and Sam Gilbert — looked at the research that has been done in the field of…

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At the fron­tier of Big Data and Brain Health

By SharpBrains | December 21, 2015

At the fron­tier of Big Data and Brain Health from Sharp­Brains Dur­ing this ses­sion we explored cut­t­ing-edge ini­tia­tives to accel­er­ate research & devel­op­ment via Big Data, crowd­sourc­ing, tech­nolo­gies for the extend­ed mind, and 

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