Learners rarely detect manipulation of offloaded information and may replace internal memory with altered external content¶

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Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? When experimenters manipulated offloaded information, participants rarely noticed and replaced their internal memory with the altered information, likened to false memory formation. → Alexander Skulmowski 2023

Evidence¶

Alexander Skulmowski 2023¶

Alexander Skulmowski. (2023). The Cognitive Architecture of Digital Externalization. Educational Psychology Review, 35:101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09818-1

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An experiment in which participants offloaded information to a digital external store and the experimenters manipulated it in certain trials (Risko et al., 2019, as reviewed here): "Participants rarely took note of this change and even replaced their internal memory with this altered information." The review frames this as memory corruption with societal consequences.

"Participants rarely took note of this change and even replaced their internal memory with this altered information, which Risko et al. (2019) compared to the formation of false memories."

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