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I was an assistant for a study that tested people's memory and 'digital memory'. We showed people info on a computer and said they'd need to recall it. Half of
by soared 8y ago
I was an assistant for a study that tested people's memory and 'digital memory'. We showed people info on a computer and said they'd need to recall it. Half of those people were told they'd have access to the computer to reference it. Sometimes we changed the location of the data so they'd look where it is but it was gone.
I don't remember the exact set up, but the result was effectively that people remembered where the info was stored, rather than the info itself. So like you explained, the computer is just external memory. It would make sense that its also external inputs, outputs, etc.
- nrhk 8y agoWe store information all over the place, on paper, in other people's brains and now on our digital devices. When we need to handle more information about the world the last thing I want to store in my brain is someone's cell phone number. I'm sure you ask your family members, roomates, work peers similar questions over and over because you know they are the keeper of that answer, they essentially act as off site storage for your brain. Now we're just taking that concept and strapping it onto a rocket but it's probably the only thing keeping us from information overload.