网络取代人脑成为记忆主要存储库_BEC初级作文

网络取代人脑成为记忆主要存储库

来自美国哈佛大学、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和哥伦比亚大学的研究人员为了验证他们的理论，开展了四项测试。

They involved giving test participants a trivia quiz and then seeing whether they recognised computer-related words more quickly than other words.

这些测试包括让参与者做琐碎记忆测试，看他们是否能更快识别和电脑相关的词汇。

The other tests involved seeing if people remembered 40 pieces information they would typically later have normally looked up.

其他的测试包括观察人们是否能记住40条他们一般稍后会查阅的信息。

The third and fourth parts of the study involved checking how well people remember where to look up information on-line and whether or not they remembered the location more than the actual data.

研究的第三和第四部分包括查看人们是否能很好地记住查阅信息的网站，以及他们是否对网站比对信息本身记得更清楚。

The results showed that when people don't believe they will need information for a later test, they do not recall it at the same rate as when they do believe they will need it.

结果显示，当人们认为自己在稍后的测试中不需要该信息时，他们能回忆起来的信息比认为自己稍后将需要该信息时要少。

In fact, some of those in the study "actively did not make the effort to remember when they thought they could later look up the trivia statements they had read", the paper says.