Can Too Many Reels Affect Your Attention? What Research Says About Short Videos and the Brain

Constantly watching short videos is destroying our attention span. Our brain gets used to fast-changing scenes and finds normal, steady activities like reading a book or having a long conversation very boring. The ‘Prefrontal Cortex’, the part of our brain that controls planning and self-control, gets weaker. We also don’t give our brain the rest it needs to move short-term memories to long-term storage. This is why we don’t remember much of what we see.

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