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

Computers and Education

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-16

  Alloway, Tracy Packiam ^a   Horton, John ^a   Alloway, Ross G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Facebook; IQ; Working memory; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; FACEBOOK; IQ; WORKING MEMORIES; YOUTUBE;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84871110443     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.10.030     Document Type: Article

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