256. Memory and the Extended Mind Thesis

2024-11-25

We’re accustomed to using technology to remember things on our behalf…but are we losing something important in the process?

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  1. The lost arts of memory (Boorstin, D. J., 1984) -
  2. Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic (Carr, N., 2012) - https://web.archive.org/web/20120817064752/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
  3. Americans are following the news less closely than they used to (Forman-Katz, N., 2023) - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/24/americans-are-following-the-news-less-closely-than-they-used-to/
  4. Outsourcing Memory to External Tools: A Review of ‘Intention Offloading’ (Gilbert, S. J., Boldt, A., Sachdeva, C., Scarampi, C. & Tsai, P.-C., 2023) - https://link.springer.com/10.3758/s13423-022-02139-4
  5. Consequences of cognitive offloading: Boosting performance but diminishing memory (Grinschgl, S., Papenmeier, F. & Meyerhoff, H. S., 2021) -
  6. Offloading memory: Serial position effects (Kelly, M. O. & Risko, E. F., 2019) - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01615-8
  7. Offloading information to an external store increases false recall (Lu, X., Kelly, M. O. & Risko, E. F., 2020) - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S001002772030247X
  8. The Extended Mind (Menary, R., 2012) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518017/the-extended-mind/
  9. Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - Allison Parrish Open Transcripts (Parish, A., 2016) - http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
  10. Offloading memory leaves us vulnerable to memory manipulation (Risko, E. F., Kelly, M. O., Patel, P. & Gaspar, C., 2019) - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0010027719301076
  11. Cognitive Offloading (Risko, E. F. & Gilbert, S. J., 2016) - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364661316300985
  12. Specifying the mechanisms behind benefits of saving-enhanced memory (Runge, Y., Frings, C. & Tempel, T., 2021) - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01341-0
  13. The seven sins of memory: How the mind forgets and remembers (Schacter, D. L., 2001) -
  14. Feats of memory anyone can do Joshua Foer , 2012) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PoUg7jXsA
  15. Extended mind thesis (Wikipedia, 2024) - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Extended_mind_thesis&oldid=1254782652#Criticism
  16. Your Outboard Brain Knows All (Wired & Thompson, C., 2007) - https://web.archive.org/web/20120910042916mp_/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/st_thompson

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