E-books may promote human memory degradation

　　Have you found that now you often forget the name or even the content of the article you just read? The answer may be "Yes." Scientists found that such a problem began to attribute the problem to their own memory decline. The reason for this may be related to people's living habits.

　　Kate Garland, a psychology lecturer at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, studied this issue and found that now everyone reads articles online. Students who read through computers need more information repetition, and paper book readers seem to be able to digest the content more fully.

　　Garland explained that when you recall something, there are two situations. One is that you think of it directly without thinking of the environment at the time; the other is that you remember this matter by reminiscing about the situation at the time (marks around it). Of course it's great to think directly, because you don't need to put effort into remembering the scene.

　　"We found that paper book readers can understand the content of the book faster in the same amount of time," Garland said. "Comparatively speaking, computer reading takes longer to understand, but it will gradually catch up. "

　　As neuroscientist Mark Changizi wrote in his blog: “In nature, information is always accompanied by physical entities, and animals can navigate through specific locations. Some plant leaves have spread all over the mountain last year. This is still the case this year.

　　Before the advent of the Internet, the information storage mechanism was still largely spatial and could be navigated. Our libraries and books are real, not separated from space like all kinds of electronic devices today. "

　　Compared with paper books, e-books have much fewer space marks, especially the early Kindle, which can only scroll the text to inform the approximate reading ratio, and cannot display the page number. In a sense, the pages are infinite and dizzying. Paper books give us a physical reference point. Some of our memories can be associated with specific locations in the book, which is difficult for e-books.

　　It can be seen that the advent of e-books has no positive effect on the development of human intellectual memory to some extent, and I think it also warns you to use the Internet reasonably. Don't overuse the network. Beware of memory degradation!