Obsessive phone-checkers face 'cognitive failures', says study

A high-level of phone-checking is associated with a range of mental blunders, warn scientists

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The constant checking of mobile phones or the internet has been associated with a range of "cognitive failures" in a study by a UK university, which found that people with short attention spans may get worse the more they use their phones.

Dr Lee Hadlington of De Montfort University, Leicester, the scientist behind the research, is not claiming that phones make people stupid, The Independent says. He can't say for certain that the association between cognitive lapses and phone use is a causal one.

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