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The Net effect on human memory

Do you remember the world before the advent of the World Wide Web? Well it seems that before the Internet we actually had to remember a lot more information than we do now. These days we just turn to laptops, tablets and smart phones. A new study is shedding light on how the vast stores of information available to us on the Internet seem to be changing the way we remember things. Andrew Fazekas is in with more on this new study that may be pointing to the fact that the web is not so good for our memories.( Photo: Istockphoto )

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