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08:08 22nd July 2011
The form in which we use the internet can have an impact on our memory, according to Teresa Bliss, child and educational psychologist.
"The internet as such cannot affect memory - it is how we use the internet and other technology that impacts upon memory," she said.
She said for example, most teenagers now own a mobile phone in which phone numbers are automatically stored and therefore they don't have to make an effort to remember them.
"The act of remembering strings of numbers such as telephone numbers is a very useful activity for improving memory. There is a saying about our physical fitness and building muscle strength, 'use it or lose it'. This applies to memory as well," she added.
Her comments followed research published in the journal Science. The results of four studies suggest that when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers and that when people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself.
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