Smartphones could help improve memory skills rather than causing people to become lazy or forgetful, a new study claims. MedTwitter NeuroTwitter
Using digital devices, such as smartphones, could help improve memory skills rather than causing people to become lazy or forgetful, claim the authors behind a new study.
Participants were shown up to 12 numbered circles on the screen, and then had to remember to drag some of these to the left and some to the right. For half of the trials they had to use their own memory to remember - they were allowed to set reminders on the digital device for the other half of the trials. Each participant performed the task 16 times.
Participants tended to use the digital devices to store the details of the high-value circles, and, when they did so, their memory for those circles was improved by 18%. Their memory for low-value circles was also improved by 27%, even in people who had never set any reminders for low-value circles. The authors said that the results showed a "potential cost", however, to using reminders. When they were taken away, the participants "remembered the low-value circles better than the high-value ones", they said, showing that they had entrusted the high-value circles to their devices and then forgotten about them.
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