In a weeklong University of California Los Angeles study last year, neuroscientists administered MRI scans to the brains of two groups of people while they were asked to perform Web searches online.

The first group was computer-savvy. The second group had never used computers before.

During the first MRI scan, the computer-savvy subjects called upon the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex – the part of the brain associated with decision-making, the integration of complex information, and short-term memory – to do the work for them.

The computer-illiterate subjects did not use that region of the brain at all.

But, during a later MRI scan, the computer-illiterate subjects used the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, too.

So what's that mean?

That brains – even adult brains – have the capacity to adapt to new technologies, and learn how to become more efficient at using them by making the processes rote .