Brain: Have we lost our memory?- Allodocters

Memory is a significant storage means for humans, because it allows you to record and keep multiple information.But has she evolved with the arrival of digital tools?Minute Doctor tells you everything!

Smartphones users are unanimous.No one knows the phone numbers of his friends or loved ones.This is normal, all the information is available at your fingertips, or in one click.Internet, social networks, applications have become an extension of the brain.

Digital tools change our brain

Are these digital tools softening our brain?Not sure...According to some researchers, there is a transformation that takes place in the brain and which leads to the modification of the functioning of the memory.

During an experience, the participants wrote sentences on a computer, each recorded in specific files.When they were then asked to remember the sentences and the place where they had stored them, overall, they remembered the files than what they had written!

It is therefore easier to remember the places where the information than their contents are stored.It's like when you want to redo the family chocolate mousse recipe: you know that your grandmother wrote it in a notebook stored in the kitchen, but you no longer remember proportions, or ingredients.

A less good memory than our ancestors?

These tools allow access to lots of knowledge in record times but to use too much, the risk would be to have a less effective memory than that of our ancestors.

This functioning could also harm the ability to distinguish significant information of a superfluous or to generate creative ideas.Always depend on these tools could also alter the effectiveness of memory compared to that of our elders.

Freeze

For scientists, this new way of ordering ideas allows you to get a lot of information out of information.All this leaves space to memorize things that really matter.The information is no longer stored in our brain but in a gigantic external memory where it is possible to access all the time, which is called the Internet.