(Our Tech Blog) A study in the United States has found widespread use of search engines and online data storage to change the way the brain remembers. Brain choose not to remember the data that are easily found in search engines like Google.
From vivanews. Scientists led by Betsy Sparrow, professor of psychology at Columbia University, performing four different memory experiments. With Daniel M. Wegner of Harvard and Jenny Liu of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, experiment, participants were asked to type a sentence 40 bits as the "eyes bigger than its brain turkey" into the computer. Half of the participants believe this information will be stored on a computer, while half believe it will be removed.
Participants are significantly easier to remember information that could not be found again later. "Participants did not make the effort to recall when they think could later be found in statements that they have read before," wrote the researchers as reported by The New York Times.
The second experiment, aimed to determine whether access to computers affects what we remember. "If you asked the question whether there is a country that has only one color flag, for example," the authors write, "whether we think of the flag or immediately searched the internet?"
In this experiment, each participant was asked to remember both that statement and of the five folders, the folder where the data is stored. Researchers surprised to find people seem to be easier to remember folder.
These experiments explore aspects that are known as 'transactive memory', a phrase that we rely on family, friends and coworkers as a reference for storing information.
"I love watching baseball," said Sparrow. "But I know my husband know the facts of baseball, so when I want to ask something and I asked him to stay no need to remember it."
Sparrow said the impact of the Internet for memory is still widely untapped. However, this research concludes that the Internet has become the main man of external storage systems. "Human memory to adapt to the technology of communication," he said.
Advancement of the internet, with the complex logarithm of search engines, has made access to information as easy as lifting a finger. No need to cost a lot to find what we seek.