A British research team has found that smartphone use can help improve memory. This is a study in a direction different from the previous analysis that excessive use of smartphones can lead to cognitive decline or forgetfulness.
A research team led by Sam Gilbert, a professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (UCL) in the UK, conducted an experiment on the difference in memory according to whether or not they used a smartphone in 158 adults between the ages of 18 and 71 in the international scientific journal ‘Journal of Experimental Psychology: General’. It was released on the 2nd.
The experiment was conducted in such a way that participants were presented with circles with numbers 1 to 12 written on them, and the participants remembered the numbers in the circle. You also need to remember the position of the left and right circles. A total of 16 memory tests were conducted per participant. No. 8 is only from the person’s memory, and the other 8 can be left a memo using a smartphone.
The research team also made it possible to get a score 10 times higher than when you remember the number on the right if you remember the number on the left. Experimental conditions were set so that participants made more effort to memorize the numbers on the left, such as memorizing the numbers on the left on a smartphone. This is to find out the difference in memory for the right digit, which is relatively less interested.
According to the results of the experiment, when taking notes using a smartphone, memory improved by 18%. It counted only those that remembered the number on the left. For the numbers on the right, memory also improved by 27%.
The research team said, “Even though the numbers on the right were not memos on the smartphone, memory improvement occurred just by using the smartphone. analyzed,” he explained.
“Further research is needed to see how digital devices such as smartphones affect people’s memory,” said Professor Gilbert.