This Greek philosopher objected to the widespread use of the written word.
Who is Socrates?
100
Rey Junco, et al. found that this social networking tool increased learning and engagement among college students.
What is Twitter?
100
This section of the brain was found to be more active when searching on the Internet in Dr. Gary Small's study.
What is the prefrontal cortex? (alternate answers: temporal lobe, cingulate, or hippocampus)
100
This federal agency will receive the funds earmarked for Obama's BRAIN initiative.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
100
Mirror neurons were first "discovered" by scientists in this country.
What is Italy?
200
Neurons in this area of the brain have the capacity to become highly specialized for reading.
What is the visual cortex or occipital lobe?
200
Sherry Turkle compares the desire of young people today to lead a less-mediated life with this famous American author from the 1800's.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
When rats are depleted of this neurotransmitter, they can lose the incentive to eat, to the point of dying.
What is dopamine?
200
The BRAIN initiative proposal has an initial allocation of this amount of money.
What is $100 million?
200
Term used to describe a theoretical point in time in which artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence.
What is the singularity?
300
This UCLA Professor of Computer Science is credited for transmitting the first message to pass over the Internet in 1969.
Who is Leonard Kleinrock?
300
Mizuko Ito uses this term to describe intense involvement in a hobby or subject online.
What is "geeking out"?
300
Dopamine neurons in the nigrostriatal system play an important role in motor control, while dopamine neurons in the mesolimbic system play an important role in _____.
What is reward?
300
This term is used to describe a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device.
What is brain-computer interface?
300
This kind of neuron is believed by some researchers to be responsible for empathy.
What is "mirror"?
400
The invention of this technology was a key force in expanding literacy to the masses.
What is the printing press?
400
Mizuko Ito describes these three distinctive categories of new media use among young people.
What is "hanging out," "messing around," and "geeking out"?
400
The participants in Tamir and Mitchell's experiments were willing to forego money in order to talk about themselves. They were willing to forego even MORE money if this component was added.
What is: if they knew the information would be shared with others?
400
This term is used to describe a direct communication pathway between two brains, as experienced by two rats in a recently published study.
What is brain-to-brain interface?
400
Year that Ray Kurzweil predicts artificial intelligence overtaking human intelligence.
What is 2029?
500
This term describes an object that was created digitally, as opposed to being a replica of a physical object.
What is born-digital?
500
This number is an industry benchmark for measuring a social network's population of users.
What is monthly active users?
500
According to the "incentive salience" hypothesis, dopamine does NOT contribute to this feeling of reward.
What is "liking"?
500
This futurist was recently hired by Google to be Head of Engineering.
Who is Ray Kurzweil?
500
This term is often used to describe a study whose results do not demonstrate causality and cannot be extrapolated to a wider population.