Michael Regilio

But having read about the study, I know that this is the part of the brain that supports language, literacy, and related cognitive networks.

But I know this is affecting important stuff in kids' brains.

I don't need to know exactly what all these scientific words mean.

I just need to know that the people who study it definitely know what these words mean.

Yes.

For example, neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath, he has conducted research at Harvard Medical School.

He argues that our kids are the first generation in the past hundred years to be cognitively worse than we are.

Cognitively worse.

I think that is what he is saying.

He argues that this generation performs worse than the one before in areas like attention, memory, working memory, creative thinking, divergent thinking, and critical thinking.

So for roughly the last hundred years, each generation has performed better than the previous one on cognitive test.

This appears to be the first generation to take a step backward, which makes it totally worth studying.

Yeah.

No, you're getting to something important.

And that's because it depends on what kids you're speaking with.

And there is actually a counter narrative to all of this.

And we'll get into that.

But first, let's dig into what some of the scientists who are ringing the alarm bells are actually saying.

So you were right to point out teenagers.

They are the group being studied the most.