Your phone gives your mind what it likes the most: endless possibilities for novelty (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Humanities

Your phone gives your mind what it likes the most: endless possibilities for novelty

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Checking our phone affords us easy access to a very satisfying reward: a piece of novel information. This craving for novelty is, according to cognitive neuroscience, a basic aspect of the way our minds work.

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Susanne Nilsson, flickr.com: https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomastern/

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