How Technology is Wrapping your Memory?

Take a moment and think are u able to memorize someone’s phone number. Technology changes the way we live in our daily lives, the way we learn, and the way we use our faculties of attention and the research suggested that it may have harmful effect on our memories.

The implications of poor working memory on our brain functioning and overall intelligence are difficult to estimate.

Here are the five things you should know as to how your technology is Wrapping your memory:

1.     Information overload makes it harder to retain information: Every single session of internet usage can make it more difficult to file away information in your memory.

2.     The internet is becoming the brain’s external hard drive: Research found that we know that digital device will remember the piece of information for us, we are less likely to remember it ourselves.

3.     Distraction becomes more difficult to form memories: Attention is the key to form memories so that the movie you texted and tweeted your way through last night? You will not memorize many of the thing which were in the movie when your friend asks you few days later.

4.     Information overload causes us to lose sight of the big picture (and then the small picture): Internet has a greater effect on our sense of meaning than we imagine. Technology has a tendency to show the isolated pieces of information without fitting them into a broader cognitive schema.

5.     Millennials memories are Rapidly Degenerating: So-called "senior moments" are becoming increasingly common among younger people, recent data found, and it's thought to be due, at least in part, to excessive reliance on technology. A 2013 Trending Machine national poll found that millennials (aged 18-34) are more likely than those over the age of 55 to forget what day it is (15 percent vs. 7 percent) and where they put their keys (14 percent vs. 8 percent). Rising stress levels (which may also have something to do with constant connectivity) could be a factor as well.

Stress often leads to forgetfulness, depression and poor judgment.

Source: Google.com