Does the increasingly complex interface of smartphones, tablets and other “gadgets” scare you a little?
“We underestimate the capabilities of our brain!” says neuroscientist Catherine Tallon-Baudry of the Paris Institute of the Brain and Spinal Cord. He is fantastically flexible and perfectly able to adapt to changes in cultural, economic and social reality. So, when written signs were invented, he mobilized specific areas for reading and writing. At one time, a zone took shape (experiments proved this), which is still responsible for recognizing banknotes. Similar processes are intensively going on in our heads right now, with the advent of new realities — the Internet, touchpads, tags or social networks.