Has the Internet become an external hard drive for the brain?

Has the Internet become an external hard drive for the brain?
“This is preliminary evidence that when people expect information to remain continuously available (as we expect with Internet access), we are more likely to remember where to find it than we are to remember the details of the item,” the researchers said. “One could argue that this is an adaptive use of memory – to include the computer and online searches as an external memory system that can be accessed at will.”

July 14, 2011 by Uncategorized 0

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