It also detailed the so-called Google effect, the study from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky found that 36% of those surveyed used search engines rather than recall to find out the answer to a question.
Researchers from UCL and the University of Birmingham confirmed that not memorising facts contributed to what they called ‘digital amnesia’. Dr Maria Wimber said that it could prevent the build-up of long-term memories meaning we would merely process information on a ‘moment to moment basis’.
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