Columbia University
Conducted research published in Science on how search engines reorganize human memory, showing people forget information they can find online.
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A study reveals that search engines like Google fundamentally alter human memory by causing people to forget information they believe is accessible online while improving recall of where to find that information, demonstrating the Internet as a form of transactive memory.
“Conducted research published in Science on how search engines reorganize human memory, showing people forget information they can find online.”