🎙️ Screenshot it so you don’t forget! 📱🧠 Great idea… except science says taking a screenshot may actually make you LESS likely to remember it. So now we have 14,000 screenshots AND no idea why we took them. 😂 episode artwork

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🎙️ Screenshot it so you don’t forget! 📱🧠 Great idea… except science says taking a screenshot may actually make you LESS likely to remember it. So now we have 14,000 screenshots AND no idea why we took them. 😂

from Pete McMurray Show · host Pete McMurray

A  new study published in Memory & Cognition …suggests that taking a screenshot may work against memory rather than for it. -Screenshots don't help the memory -Smartphones are to blame -Attention span is just :47 seconds now   To subscribe to The Pete McMurray Show Podcast just click here

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🎙️ Screenshot it so you don’t forget! 📱🧠 Great idea… except science says taking a screenshot may actually make you LESS likely to remember it. So now we have 14,000 screenshots AND no idea why we took them. 😂

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