But you're not responding to the claim (or claims) being made. The main claim is that digital media remove the spatial element from the picture, making it more

But you're not responding to the claim (or claims) being made. The main claim is that digital media remove the spatial element from the picture, making it more difficult to remember things. This isn't a crazy notion. Think of the method of loci[0] which explicitly uses an imaginary space to "keep" information for later recall. This must be, because spatial association is something useful for navigating spatial environments, so if you cannot lean on that to reinforce memory and recall, then you're at a greater disadvantage. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci