The Brain of Tomorrow, Google, and Creativity¹¹

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1 This article is a translated, edited, and expanded version of excerpts from Parlez-vous cerveau? by Lionel Naccache and Karine Naccache (Paris, Odile Jacob, 2018).

2 Betsy Sparrow et al., “Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips.” Science, vol. 333, no. 6043, 2011, pp. 776–778; Betsy Sparrow and Ljubica Chatman, “Social Cognition in the Internet Age: Same as it Ever Was?” Psychological Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 4, 2013, pp. 273–292.

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Lionel Naccache

Lionel Naccache (M.D., Ph.D.) is a neurologist (professor of medicine at Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital and at Sorbonne University, Paris, France), a cognitive neuroscientist, and a writer. His work is devoted to the exploration of the psychological properties and the cerebral basis of consciousness. He envisions writing as a third line of research on subjectivity, revisiting broader issues such as the unconscious, belief, globalization, or poetry.

Karine Naccache

Karine Naccache is the author of Chana Tova, Barbara (2009) and Mauvaise conscience (2001) published by JCLattès. She is also a fluent “brain speaker.”

Dawn Cornelio is Full Professor of French Studies at the University of Guelph (Canada). Her research focuses on contemporary French women’s writing and the theory and practice of literary translation. Her translations have been published in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, and read at such venues as the Harbourfront Festival of Authors, Eden Mills Writers Festival, and the Dubai International Poetry Festival. She has published articles in such journals as Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, @nalyses, and Women in French Studies, along with chapters in edited volumes. After doing extensive research on Chloé Delaume, she is currently creating a critical website analyzing the author’s work, and her translation of Delaume’s novel Certainement pas, into English as Not a Clue was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2018.