Influence of internet - activity for people's cognitive abilities

The experimental researches (2004-2011) of memory, attention and thinking of the internet - activity of children aged 10-12, 14-16, of students aged 18-20, and of old people aged 25-40, allows to concern that longer (up to three years) and systematical (up to four hours every day) internet using makes the influence for the productivity of cognitive abilities. The research proved that: - the increasing of memorizing speed of the essay and complex nonverbal material by internet-active school children and students with the period of using internet resources over three years, in comparison of the results of control group and other experimental groups with lover period of internet-activity; - the decreasing of memorizing speed of the complicated nonverbal senseless material by students and old people with the period of using internet resources over 10 years, in comparison of the analogous indexes of students and old people with the period of using internet resources more than six years; - the growth of thinking abilities' productivity and the decreasing of attention abilities' productivity of school children with the period of using internet resources over three years, in comparison of the analogous indexes of the users with the period of using internet resources till 1.5 year and from 1,5 to 3 years. Psycho-pedagogical research of meta-memory processes of internet-active students aged 18-19 with the period of using the internet resources over ten years, revealed non-favorable signs for the effective functioning of theirs memory; lower level of the nervous system activity; non-appropriate species of the hemisphere's activity for the produced load; the activity level of theirs' nervous system was non-appropriate for the load's complication (high activity of the nervous system with memorizing relatively easy material).