How GPS Technology is Changing Our Brains

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 22, 2016

Author Greg Milner gives us the first definitive account of GPS, the way the world economy relies on it and how it has changed the neuroscience of special recognition in Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds. He also reveals how GPS may be altering the nature of our cognition, and even rearranging the gray matter in our brains.

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