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April 9, 2008

Addicted to information

What is it about the Web that might make it literally irresistible? Clues are offered by research conducted by Irving Biederman, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, who is interested in the evolutionary and biological basis of the human need for information. Dr. Biederman first showed a collection of photographs to volunteer test [...]

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