Neuroanthropology, social behavior and digital technology.

Abstract

The constant use of digital technology is modifying the neuronal structure of the brain lobes, mainly the frontal lobe, inhibiting social behavior and modifying the way we relate to society. The method of adaptation of subjects to their social group are the so-called social skills, a group of behaviors considered correct that allow acceptance in a community. Stimulation of the frontal lobes by a digital component at an early age causes a lesion that inhibits the social behavior of infants, making it difficult for them to relate to their social environment and partially isolating them from it. If the damage produced in the frontal lobe is observed at a population level, a phenomenon that is difficult to correct is found that modifies the behavior of infants, isolating them from their environment and creating a pseudo digital specialization in infants, preventing their adaptability to stressful situations or to modifying your environment. Neuroanthropology addresses this phenomenon to explain behaviors based on changes in brain structures, thus uniting Physical Anthropology, Neurology and Psychology. The present study seeks to investigate the development of social skills in children from Greater Caracas, Venezuela, as well as the possible indicators that they present in their development in literacy and socio-emotional, for which psychologists, teachers and representatives were interviewed, an investigation framed within from the context of the 2020 COVID pandemic.