MIT's 'cognitive debt' EEG study remains the basis of the professional debate
According to a 2025 preprint from MIT Media Lab, students writing essays with ChatGPT showed weaker neural connectivity, and many could not recall the sentences they had written. Several summaries returned to it in October, including the authors' finding that 83 percent of the students studied could not quote their work.
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