Consequences of cognitive offloading: Boosting performance but diminishing memory.
Modern technical tools such as tablets allow for the temporal externalisation of working memory processes (i.e., cognitive offloading). Although such externalisations support immediate performance on different tasks, little is known about potential long-term consequences of offloading behaviour. In...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 74; no. 9; pp. 1477 - 1497 |
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Sep2021
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