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What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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Post by bartread »

MrJagil wrote: post #11

“One of the biggest issues with picking up the phone right away in the morning is that when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler. “You wouldn’t want to wake up and look a bear in the face every morning. On a physiological level, it’s the same thing.” This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at m…

> This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at my girlfriends face, hopefully that does not subconsciously trigger the same response.

Yeah, exactly. If my adult brain can distinguish between my wife's face and a bear, or my pillow and bear, why can't it distinguish between my phone and a bear? Plus, the phone is an object I hold in my hand. Is TFA saying that other objects I hold in my hand and bring close to my face so I can get a good look at them register as threats?

It reads like nonsense to me.

Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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Post by andai »

frereubu wrote: post #21
MrJagil wrote: post #11

“One of the biggest issues with picking up the phone right away in the morning is that when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler. “You wouldn’t want to wake up and look a bear in the face every morning. On a physiological level, it’s the same thing.” This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at m…

This sounds like hocus pocus to me, along the lines of the claim that phone alert tones activate the "love centre" of the brain. Just so happens that the "love centre" is also the "vomiting centre" along with a load of other stuff. I'd treat this hand-wavy claim with the same kind of skepticism - your counter-example is an excellent one. I agree that looking at a phone first thing in the morning is a bad idea, but fo…

I got into "deep work" a while ago, keeping my internet off until noon every day. It blew my mind how calm and focused I was when I didn't fill my head with nonsense first thing in the morning.

Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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komali2 wrote: post #41

This may be because I no longer live an isolated American lifestyle, but my impression in Taiwan is that adults are hopelessly addicted to their phones. This is gonna come off as obnoxious but I can't help it, whenever my partner and I go out for a nice dinner we're unable to comprehend how literally every other couple spends basically the entire meal on their phones. Sometimes one of them even has a little phone hol…

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Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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Post by dukeyukey »

boccaff wrote: post #54
ulimn wrote: post #43

I'm not very confident about the quality of this study... It already begins like this: Evidence suggests that chronic sensory stimulation via excessive exposure to screen time may affect brain development in negative ways. Excessive smartphone use may increase the risk [...] Do they consider "screen time" only to be "smartphone use"? Is it better to use a tablet? Or PC / laptop? What if I use a 6.7" screen with my co…

I'd guess that you can equate "screen time" to "smartphone use" in most of the population but here. Similar to what people are using the screen for. To include so many variations of screen would complicate a lot the study, and without a prior about why it should matter, you are probably safer starting with something more homogeneous.

A huge number of people are professional screen-users. Almost every office job, and quite a few otherwise. I probably spend more time on my work laptop than my phone, and I'm pretty bad for using my phone a lot.

Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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Post by andai »

interludead wrote: post #60
frereubu wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds like hocus pocus to me, along the lines of the claim that phone alert tones activate the "love centre" of the brain. Just so happens that the "love centre" is also the "vomiting centre" along with a load of other stuff. I'd treat this hand-wavy claim with the same kind of skepticism - your counter-example is an excellent one. I agree that looking at a phone first thing in the morning is a bad idea, but fo…

Striking a balance in our morning routines can be more beneficial overall.

I assume you don't mean an equal ratio of drivel and truly meaningful experiences, though I'd love to hear more.

Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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Post by ywvcbk »

boccaff wrote: post #54
ulimn wrote: post #43

I'm not very confident about the quality of this study... It already begins like this: Evidence suggests that chronic sensory stimulation via excessive exposure to screen time may affect brain development in negative ways. Excessive smartphone use may increase the risk [...] Do they consider "screen time" only to be "smartphone use"? Is it better to use a tablet? Or PC / laptop? What if I use a 6.7" screen with my co…

I'd guess that you can equate "screen time" to "smartphone use" in most of the population but here. Similar to what people are using the screen for. To include so many variations of screen would complicate a lot the study, and without a prior about why it should matter, you are probably safer starting with something more homogeneous.

> smartphone use" in most of the population but here

Presumably you don’t think that all the white collar workers who aren’t in tech spend all of their work-hours scrolling tiktok/etc.?

Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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Post by Terr_ »

raincole wrote: post #49
MrJagil wrote: post #11

“One of the biggest issues with picking up the phone right away in the morning is that when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler. “You wouldn’t want to wake up and look a bear in the face every morning. On a physiological level, it’s the same thing.” This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at m…

> It does make some evolutionary sense Does it? It sounds total bs to me. "When you have an object close to your face, it's registered as food, because you need to get close to your meal to eat it." "When you have an object close to your face, it's registered as love, because parents needs to get close to their child to look after them." When you have a statement that you can bend in an arbitrary way and still make s…

Yeah, sometimes I put a morning banana by my bed, and I'm pretty sure my body doesn't treat it is a threat.

Seeking a charitable explanation, "near things are a threat" is a garbled form of "near things cause physiological arousal"?

That more-inclusive version would then cover cases like "delicious fruit" and "scary spider" and "the thing I put down next to me as a reminder to do something with it as soon as I got up."

Re: What excessive screen time does to the adult brain

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Post by ywvcbk »

kmarc wrote: post #51
virtue3 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LED backlight might. If no backlight probably fine.

What about yellow(ish) backlight? I switched to Kobo bc of that

No, only actually candlelight is fine. Ideally an open fire. However reading itself is unnatural so it can only lead to negative outcomes..
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