Internet search engines such Google has changed the way the human brain remember information, according to a recent study conducted by scientists.As quoted from the Economic Times, Friday (15/7/2011), the study says that the amount of information available today on the internet makes it easy to forget, because computers today have become the ' external ' memory.
Researchers from Harvard University and Columbia University, says that Google and the site database as Amazon has now made an ' external ' memory by humans, so that the ability of the memory in the Elohist thus less honed.
The study also States that now people prefer to remember the things that they could not find on the internet. In addition, the study mentions that people today are more difficult to remember things easily they find on the internet.
"Since the presence of such internet search engines, so we changed the way of considering things," said Betsy Sparrow, a psychologist from Columbia University.
"Dependence of our brains with the internet for the current memory, just the magnitude of how the brain dependency in memory will be your friends and family," he added.
In addition, the study also revealed that way considering today's society is a place where they store information, rather than the content of the information itself.
The results of this research into a paper titled ' Google Effects on Memory: Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips ' is a summary of the four tests to the students of Harvard University and Columbia University. The study also published in the journal Science online.
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