Using a smartphone in order to keep some information, leads to a deterioration in the memory of a person. This point of view was voiced in an interview with Radio Sputnik Doctor of Biological Sciences, a psycho-physicist, professor at the Department of Physiology of Human and Animal MSU. M.V. Lomonosova Alexander Kaplan.
In his opinion, due to the fact that people at any time can find an excerpt from the book or the film that they need, read any reference information, use the gadget as a device for memorizing the data, the brain is relaxing. In other words, the muscles of this organ remain without movement. As a result, atrophy. The reason is that the mechanisms of the brain responsible for memory do not have full employment.
“Brain gets used to working with external memory than with the inner,” said specialist.
In addition, we save a lot of information on the device just in case. The body is forced to analyze which one is needed, and what is not. Sorting and memorizing “unnecessary” data leads to a waste of brain resources.
The scientist advised people not to devote to gadgets too much of their time.