Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?

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Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?

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Dec 20, 2022

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A new study puts the “brain drain hypothesis”—the idea that just having a phone next to you impacts your cognition—to the test to see if the science passes muster.

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Dec 20, 2022

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Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?

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