Internet use, users, and cognition: on the cognitive relationships between Internet-based technology and Internet users.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to investigate growing Internet use in relation to memory and cognition. Though literature reveals human capability to utilize the Internet as a transactive memory source, the formational mechanisms of such transactive memory systems are not extensively explored. The Internet's comparative effects on transactive memory and semantic memory are also relatively unknown.

Methods

This study comprises two experimental memory task survey phases utilizing null hypothesis and standard error tests to assess significance of results.

Results

When information is expected to be saved and accessible, recall rates are lower, regardless of explicit instructions to remember (Phase 1, N = 20). Phase 2 suggests the importance of order of attempted recall: depen

SUBMITTER: Nagam VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042401 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature