Surfing the internet allows the elderly to maintain particularly good mental alertness – US scientists say, the findings of which were published by a German magazine “Senior counselor”. A team of scientists from the University of California, led by Gary Small, she concluded, that the use of internet search engines activates and trains important areas of the brain, which remain idle while reading books. Californian scientists have determined, that while reading, the areas of the brain that are responsible for speech are active, reading, memory and processing of optical stimuli Using the Internet additionally activates these parts of the brain, which are involved in making complex decisions.
