NEW YORK (Reuters) - When author Nicholas Carr began researching his book on whether the Internet is ruining our minds, he restricted his online access and e-mail and turned off his Twitter and Facebook
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News last month of a pilot study suggesting that college students' use of Facebook was related to lower college academic achievement probably sent more than a few parents reeling. A new study may allay parental concern. Using three sets of relevant data, researchers failed to find evidence that Facebook use negatively correlates with grades.
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130-139(2007)I definitely recommend this article. The basic design and analysis could be very easily ported for our study. The one thing I am not sure about is the sensitivity of the task. One thing that is interesting is we could very easily run behavioral pilots with the task and check for reaction time differences. But the design of the study would be easily ported, and we could change out the tasks easily enough. I will ask Chris Frith what task he might recommend for our purposes at our next lab meeting..