@rohanpaul_ai: wow Watching short-form videos you actually like can dial down activity in brain regions involved in cognitive control.…
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Research indicates that watching preferred short-form videos reduces activity in brain regions responsible for cognitive control, suggesting a weakening of self-regulation during immersive viewing.
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Watching short-form videos you actually like can dial down activity in brain regions involved in cognitive control.
The more immersive the viewing, the less those control systems or brain region appear to be recruited.
Those regions help monitor conflict and execute top-down control, and both were more suppressed during clips participants watched to completion than clips they skipped early.
i.e. brain’s control network quieted most when participants watched preferred videos to completion.
Nicholas Fabiano, MD (@NTFabiano): Watching short-form videos deactivates key brain regions for cognitive control.
Your “stop” button goes offline.
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