School of Arts and Humanities, Tung Wah College, Cheung Kung Hai Memorial Building, 90A Shantung Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Department of Brain Sciencies, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Sci Rep. 2024 Oct 22;14(1):24914. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-75788-1.
As the internet is becoming more and more accessible and prevalent, there has been growing interest in determining the effect of internet use on human cognition, particularly memory. However, much less is known about how internet use frequency is related to episodic memory, which refers to the memory of past events as opposed to facts (i.e., semantic memory). Episodic memory is very relevant to the internet because of the notion that the internet is a form of transactive memory, which requires people to retrieve how information was accessed (i.e., episodic memory) rather than the information itself (i.e., semantic memory). By analyzing data from 36, 542 participants with 44.06% females and a mean age of 46.63 years old from the Understanding Society using multivariate and univariate analysis of variances (ANOVA), the current study found that the frequency of internet use is positively related to episodic memory (assessed using the immediate recall and delayed word recall tasks). These results provide support to the notion that the internet is a form of transactive memory and the "use it, or lose it" theory.
随着互联网的普及和普及，人们越来越关注互联网使用对人类认知的影响，特别是记忆。然而，对于互联网使用频率与情景记忆的关系，人们知之甚少。情景记忆是指对过去事件的记忆，而不是事实（即语义记忆）。由于互联网是一种交互记忆的形式，这需要人们检索信息是如何被访问的（即情景记忆），而不是信息本身（即语义记忆），因此情景记忆与互联网非常相关。通过对来自理解社会的 36542 名参与者（女性占 44.06%，平均年龄为 46.63 岁）的数据进行多元和单变量方差分析（ANOVA）分析，本研究发现，互联网使用频率与情景记忆呈正相关（使用即时回忆和延迟单词回忆任务评估）。这些结果支持了互联网是一种交互记忆形式和“用进废退”理论的观点。
