Using the Internet to access information inflates future use of the Internet to access other information

Memory

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 717-723

  Storm, Benjamin C ^a   Stone, Sean M ^a   Benjamin, Aaron S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive offloading; Memory; metacognition; retrieval; technology

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESEARCH; YOUNG ADULT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEMORY; RESEARCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978696156     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1210171     Document Type: Article

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