Syntes: Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips (2011)

Källa: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207745 (Science 333)

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• [abstract] Four studies: when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers; when people expect future access to information, they recall the information itself less and recall better where to find it.

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• [Camerer et al. 2018, supplement, full text] The large replication tested Study 1 only (computer terms became more accessible after hard trivia questions, measured with a Stroop task), and it did not replicate. The memory findings (lower recall when expecting future access) were not part of that replication. The supplement also reports the original paper stated n = 46 for Study 1 when 69 were actually used.
• [assessment] Small lab samples; full text of Sparrow et al. not read (closed).

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