microdac

That may or may not be true. I am sorry, what was the question?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I will bet that most of the people studied were taking their pictures with phones. The "Smart Phone Addicted" don't see much of the world around them, little things like buildings, open man holes, other people, trains and buses. So they would not have many memories of things/times/events, unless their phone was pointed at it.
And some photographers with real cameras get fixated also. At the Railway Museum when I was motorman on a streetcar I twice (on the same corner) came around a corner and found a photographer with tripod in the middle of the track to get a "real good shot" of an on coming streetcar. I managed to stop before hitting them both times. The second one of them I got stopped less than 20' from him and was ringing the car's bell like crazy the whole way around the curve (based on the first time it happened) and then sat there less than 20 feet away ringing the bell for at least 5 seconds before the guy realized something was wrong and looked up. Eyes the size of silver dollars, jaw dropped down, went very pale and jumped off the track with tripod then leaned on the tripod staring at the car as I started moving and went past him. I think the tripod was all that was holding him on his feet.

AlfredU Loc: Mooresville, NC

I would submit that whoever wrote that small article has never been a real photographer. If they were, they would know better.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

He/she WAS a photographer. He/she forgot.

AlfredU Loc: Mooresville, NC

Or perhaps just a snap shooter and not a real photographer. Nah, you're probably right!

sv3noKin51E

What? Oh... that, I didn't forget, it was stored in the cache. I'll cycle it again after a cold beverage and then I'm sure it'll come back to me. My positronic matrix and neural net was guaranteed to be responsible for whatever the 64 GB card in the camera couldn't keep up with. No, that wasn't it.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

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Rongnongno Loc: FL

Actually you are drawing the wrong conclusion and ask the wrong question. While the title cites 'loss of memory' the text is about 'loss of experience'. In this context the title takes a different meaning. It is not about 'forgetting memories' but 'not creating lasting memories'.

THAT ('not creating lasting memories') I whole-fully agree with.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

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I agree with this article being "Rubbish".

I do think that the article - and especially that of the "study" - was created to get attention and a thesis or project paper.

As I can almost remember any event and or photographic print I have ever made if the 50+ years of working a camera, I do not 'hold' a basic truth with this article.

WHY?

Because I take Handwritten notes. When working with film I write down EVERYTHING. When working with digital I write down my feelings and other things about the area where I am. I Know = Old School. But saving and Printing out photographic images you have captured is about a thing of the past. The "i-Phone people" will not understand this. Until later on when they have a WANT to see something of the past, and or make a print of any size it is "Now where did I put that photo?" Be it Food, selfies, and or other "rubbish".

The memory now can only recall the "It was something to so with..... Oh Hell! I forgot." = Mainly because these "i-Phone people" have captured so many meanless images. No Notes = No Memory.

So - That is my belief of this.

BTW = I will not debate this thought I have.

Peace - Out.

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https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/05/31/taking-a-photo-of-something-impairs-your-memory-of-it-but-the-reasons-remain-largely-mysterious/

bbrowner Loc: Chapel Hill, NC

I have found that since doing more with photography in recent years... my mind and my eye is more tuned in to what is around me... not less.

Barry

DWHart24 Loc: Central Florida

Bingo again...

josquin1 Loc: Massachusetts

Perhaps it is a question of imagination vs a fixed image. The same issue exists in the movie vs the book. Just reading a novel lends itself to one's imagination while watching a movie of the book definitely destroys one's own interpretation of the author's work.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

The last few lines gave it away where it came from. It goes right in to the round file under the desk..

tomcat

Look at where the study was done and that answers a lot of questions......

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

Just to be clear, not all research conducted by universities is government funded.