别让相机模糊了记忆(英文)

• 作 者: John Ericson
• 出 处: 英语画刊(高级版)
• 发表日期: 2014年05期
• 关键词: 拍照功能 目标物体 psychological capture missing camera Linda remember meaningful college

随着手机的使用逐渐遍及校园,越来越多的学生采取拍照的方式代替做笔记。然而,最新实验证明:拍照会损伤人们对目标物体的记忆。这一看似有些违反直觉的现象被称为“拍照功能损害效应”。“People so often whip out their camerasalmost mindlessly to capture a moment,to thepoint that they are missing what is happeningright in front of them,”explains Fairfield Uni-versity’s psychological scientist Linda Henkel,

With the gradual adoption of mobile phones throughout the campus, more and more students take pictures instead of taking notes. However, the latest experiment shows that photographing can damage people’s memory of the target object. This seemingly somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon is known as the “photographic impairment effect.” “People so often whip out their cameras almost mindlessly to capture a moment, to the point that they are missing what is happening right in the front of them, ” explains Fairfield Uni-versity’s psychological scientist Linda Henkel,