Social networking sites and cognitive abilities: Do they make you smarter?

Tracy Packiam Alloway; John Horton; Ross G. Alloway

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2012.10.030

Social networking sites and cognitive abilities: Do they make you smarter?

Tracy Packiam Alloway, John Horton, Ross G. Alloway

Psychological and Brain Sciences

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10-16
Number of pages	7
Journal	Computers & Education
Volume	63
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2012.10.030
State	Published - 2013

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

General Computer Science
Education

Keywords

Academic performance
Facebook
IQ
Working memory
YouTube

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