![]() ) I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. But some new things I've fallen in love with - mismatched everything. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. It means I've just added more things to my list. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. This post was written by Mike Battista, a staff scientist at Creyos (formerly Cambridge Brain Sciences).“I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. The state of your brain also makes a difference-a sharper brain will better be able to focus attention where it’s needed, and turn short-term perceptions into lasting memories. Having a camera at all times could be good for memory, then, as long as it’s the visuals you want to remember and not the audio. But attention is limited, so if you’re focusing on what you see, not focusing on what you hear. ![]() You remember what you pay attention to, and if you have a camera that you plan to use, you’re paying attention to what everything looks like. ![]() This last result shows that memory is closely related to attention. Interestingly, even taking a “mental photo”-that is, just pretending to have a camera-also boosted visual memories, but had the same downside of reducing auditory memories. For example, participants remembered fewer facts from a museum’s audio guide when they took pictures of the exhibits. The catch? Visual memories went up, but auditory memories went down. Rather than being a distraction or a crutch, cameras appear to have provided an overall boost to visual memories. Furthermore, taking pictures boosted all visual memories, not only the specific items that were photographed. ![]() These people didn’t review the photos, so their better memory wasn’t due to having more chances to commit the environment to memory. ![]() For example, while exploring a museum, they could identify the objects they encountered better than people without cameras. People who took pictures had better memories for visual items. Was memory affected by the ability to take pictures? As usual, it’s complicated. In various lab and field tests, participants were either allowed to take photos normally, or prevented from taking photos by surrendering their phones. As we rely less on our memory abilities and more on cameras, does our natural ability to remember suffer?Ī recent study has some answers. Smartphones have ensured that almost anybody can snap a picture at any time, preserving the moment better than our squishy, error-prone brains ever could. You probably have at least one camera nearby right now. ![]()
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