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Based on your script, here's a comprehensive list of research sources for your YouTube description:
SOURCES & RESEARCH:
Cognitive Effects & Memory:

MIT Media Lab Study (2025) - "Your Brain on ChatGPT" - Nataliya Kosmyna et al. (EEG study on brain connectivity and digital amnesia)
Generation Effect research (psychology/cognitive science, 1970s+)
The Lancet (2024/2025) - Study on doctors losing diagnostic ability after 4 months of LLM use

AI & Creative Homogenization:

"Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content" - Science Advances (2024) - Doshi & Hauser, UCL/Exeter study
"Echoes in AI: Quantifying lack of plot diversity in LLM outputs" - PNAS (2025) - Xu et al.
"Using Generative AI Personas Increases Collective Diversity in Human Ideation" - Wan & Kalman (2025)

Cognitive Friction & Decision-Making:

"Biased AI improves human decision-making but reduces trust" - Lai et al. (August 2025)
"From humans to AI: understanding why AI is perceived as the preferred co-creation partner" - Min Tang "Fork Study" (Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024)

Inner Speech & Cognition:

Charles Fernyhough research on inner speech and self-talk
Andy Murray tennis final case study (self-regulation through inner dialogue)
Descriptive Experience Sampling research

AI Reasoning & Test-Time Compute:

OpenAI o1 (Strawberry) and Google Gemini "Thinking" models documentation
Test-time reasoning and chain of thought research

Business Applications:

"Can AI Boards Outperform Human Ones?" - Harvard Business Review (November 2025) - CEO AI decision-making study

Methodology:

Ines Lee Protocol for human-AI collaboration
The New Yorker - "What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?" (context on AI capabilities)


Additional Resources:

Anthropic research on Claude model features (Trenton Bricken et al.)
Andrej Karpathy on LLMs as "humanity's first contact with non-animal intelligence"