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Your brain on ChatGPT — British Journal of General Practice

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Key
armitage-2025-bjgp-your-brain-on-chatgpt
Authors
Armitage, Richard
Issued
2025-8-25
Type
article-journal
Container
British Journal of General Practice
Volume
75
Issue
758
Pages
410
Raw CSL JSON
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  "DOI": "10.3399/bjgp25X743181",
  "URL": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12723506/",
  "page": "410",
  "type": "article-journal",
  "issue": "758",
  "title": "Your brain on ChatGPT",
  "author": [
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      "given": "Richard",
      "family": "Armitage"
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2025,
        8,
        25
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  "volume": "75",
  "container-title": "British Journal of General Practice"
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Claims

  1. Writing in the British Journal of General Practice, Armitage called the study the first neurophysiological evidence that LLM assistance alters how the brain processes and retains information, and suggested that cognitive debt may apply to medical education.
    "While the results are not necessarily surprising, this article offers the first neurophysiological evidence that LLM assistance fundamentally alters how our brains process and retain information. [...] it is possible that the problem of cognitive debt is transferable to the over-reliance on LLMs in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical learning contexts."
    Quote language: en
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