Digital devices could actually help improve our memory rather than impair it
Although they do help, it's important to try and memorize the most important bits of information ourselves.
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Although they do help, it's important to try and memorize the most important bits of information ourselves.
Believe it or not, but digital devices like smartphones and laptops have shown to help people store and remember important information, according to findings published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Study: Devices store important data, freeing up people’s memory for other things
Using digital devices, such as smartphones, could help improve memory skills rather than causing people to become lazy or forgetful, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
'We wanted to explore how storing information in a digital device could influence memory abilities,' said researcher Sam Gilbert from the University College London.