A recent study on whether reading on the computer interferes with your memory makes me wander if Nicholas Carr author of "Is Goggle Making Us Stupid" was actually right about his ideas on how the internet alters your way in thinking or concentrating. This article " Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?" from Time Magazine goes into detail about an experiment led by Kate Garland, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leicester in England tested on a few psychology students. They were presented with economic information they didn't know. First group of students had to read the information on the computer and the second group read print. What was discovered is the students who read the digital version had to read the text repeatedly and the students reading print understood the material without repetition(Szalavitz,2012). In addition, Szalavitz includes the more connections the brain serves as memory the more frequently it will be remembered. For example, reading from top to bottom, or where the image was placed on the left or right of the text helps the brain contain better memory. It depends on the type of reader that was part of the experiment, typically a frequent reader would have much of a problem with either one.
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