Washington: Researchers have said that long term use of internet has an impact on the memory of the user.
The researchers speculated if people were more likely to remember information that could be easily retrieved from a computer, just as students are more likely to recall facts they believe will be on a test.
Dr. Sparrow along with Daniel M. Wegner of Harvard and Jenny Liu of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, demonstrated their fidningd with four staged four different memory experiments.
The experiment aimed at exploring what is known as transactive memory.
“I love watching baseball,” Dr. Sparrow said. “But I know my husband knows baseball facts, so when I want to know something I ask him, and I don’t bother to remember it.”
The Internet’s effects on memory are still largely unexplored, Dr. Sparrow said, adding that her experiments had led her to conclude that the Internet has become our primary external storage system.
“Human memory,” she said, “is adapting to new communications technology.”
