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[–] kindenough@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So…without looking at your mobile phone…what is your moms phone number? I remember knowing at least 10 phone numbers pre mobile era.

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I never use phone contacts because I remember all the phone numbers I could possibly need (partly because almost nobody uses phone nowadays so I don't have to remember a lot of them). I never accept calls unless I know the number or expect a call either, but I don't need contacts for that.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago

The article clearly explains that using an external memory device allows users to offload low importance information and focus on remembering high importance information:

This was because using the device shifted the way that people used their memory to store high-importance versus low-importance information. When people had to remember by themselves, they used their memory capacity to remember the most important information. But when they could use the device, they saved high-importance information into the device and used their own memory for less important information instead.