the route
INT:
It's an active ys a passive engagement issue?
sue
Kang: Absolutely. There's also a new area of memory research that looks
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at our ability to remember things if we know the information is
(E)
stored externally, for example, on a computer. The idea here is
that our "working memory"-what we're focusing on at any given
moment has a limited capacity. If we exceed that capacity by,
say, paying attention to five things at once, we might try to unload
some of that remembering to external storage. And if we begin to
have an expectation that the information is always at our fingertips,
we might not keep the information in our mind very carefully when
we do encounter it.
