Internet's memory effects quantified in computer study

[Archean]

Computers and the internet are changing the nature of our memory, research in the journal Science suggests.

Psychology experiments showed that people presented with difficult questions began to think of computers.

When participants knew that facts would be available on a computer later, they had poor recall of answers but enhanced recall of where they were stored.

The researchers say the internet acts as a "transactive memory" that we depend upon to remember for us.

 

[red1776]

I also read this study on...i think it was Psychology today...or it may have been Wiki, anyway it said that memory recall was based on ...something this article said about the first five years of life...or it may have been the first three. I bookmarked the article on Opera , but I cant find it...maybe I bookmarked it on Firefox, I wish I could remember how to import bookmarks. At any rate , it was really interesting as i remember.

 

[captaincranky]

I also read this study on...i think it was Psychology today...or it may have been Wiki, anyway it said that memory recall was based on ...something this article said about the first five years of life...or it may have been the first three. I bookmarked the article on Opera , but I cant find it...maybe I bookmarked it on Firefox, I wish I could remember how to import bookmarks. At any rate , it was really interesting as i remember.

I'm frankly quite impressed at how vividly you remember what you can't remember.

 

[Archean]

I'm frankly quite impressed at how vividly you remember what you can't remember.

I suspect it to be a more common phenomenon. :grinthumb