[lg policy] Cell phones make kids faster, dumber

[Dennis Baron]

There's a new post on the Web of Language:  Cell phones make kids  
faster, dumber

Last year the Librarian of Congress warned that texting was  
responsible for a drastic decline in American sentences, but that  
opinion wasn't backed up by any scientific evidence. Now, a team of  
Australian psychologists has come a step closer to proving that mobile  
phones are destroying our ability to think. The researchers show that  
children who use mobile phones respond to higher-level cognitive tasks  
faster, but less accurately, than those who don't.

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Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217-244-0568
fax: 217-333-4321

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