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How Does Google Change Our Memory Skills?  Have you ever worried that your brain might go soft because you use Google to get your answers?  The terrific news is that you no longer need to remember all the details.  Columbia University psychologist, Betsy Sparrow’s research shows that our memories are changing but in a positive way.  We are becoming less reliant on data and better able to process information.  The internet has become our primary form of external memory – we know where to go to find the information we seek.  Sparrow also notes that general intelligence is growing.

Science, August 5, 2011: Google Effects On Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips by Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu and Daniel M. Wegner.