How smart phones affect our memory

Madeeha
3 min readJan 25, 2023

In the past, poets have been praying for Hafize's disappearance by describing it as 'Azaab', but after the advent of modern technology, the reason for such 'Aadam' disappearing may be that the mobile phone is doing the same thing now.
A report by 'Al-Jarjak' magazine discusses some of the same points citing modern research and using the words 'digital promiscuity'.
Scientists say that modern mobile phones are one of the major causes of memory loss because artificial memory, like artificial intelligence, is affecting their natural abilities.

The interesting thing is that the mobile which the user considers as the main source of his memory, often forgets it somewhere while it is so common to be confused as to which pocket the mobile was put in.
Experts believe that the thing that is used continuously gets better as it continues and the same is the case with the memory, but after the arrival of the mobile phone, the human being shakes the trouble of remembering many things from his head. The head of the mobile has been put.
This results in reduced memory usage and thus affects overall memory capacity.
Before the advent of smart phones, people used to remember important dates, car numbers, routes used to get somewhere, important friends and family numbers by practicing their memory which was also a form of training. .
The most important thing that is looked at while buying a mobile nowadays is how much memory it has so that the user can store as much memory as possible which is obviously not a bad thing to accommodate more data but experts point out. That if the mobile is over-relied, the memory becomes weak.
The report cites Professor Chris Baird, who teaches cognitive neuroscience at the University of Sussex's School of Psychology.

Professor Chris Baird says that 'the reason memory improved in the past was because people first tried to remember things and often wrote them down on paper, which was considered the most important process for remembering something. Is.'
He further said that 'Nowadays people reach for mobile phones for any task that requires a little thought. Because those shots take this work away from the mobile, it's a kind of brain-slowing process that gradually reduces the amount of memory needed to remember something.

Similarly, some time ago, the British newspaper Guardian published a report that neuroscientists agree that mobile phones are leading people to 'digital stupidity'.
Catherine Lode, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Westminster, says that people's memory has been more affected during the Corona days because the use of the Internet and smart phones to get news and communicate with others during quarantine and isolation. I had increased.

In the report, neuroscientists advise people to reduce their reliance on mobile devices for memory-related things at least.
Similarly, it is suggested that they try to stay away from their smartphones for a certain period of time a day and increase this period on a daily basis.
Similarly, if you want to call someone, instead of going to the phone book and matching the number, dial the number from the keypad.
Minimize the use of navigation apps while commuting.
Also reduce the use of reminder apps to remember something important.
It has also been said that if a small diary is kept in the pocket like in the past and any phone number, address, date and name etc. is entered in it, he remembers it for a long time.

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