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cognitive offloading  

Definition

  • "The use of physical action to alter the information processing requirements of a task so as to reduce cognitive demand" (Risko & Gilbert, 2016).

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  • • Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998). The extended mind. Analysis, 58(1), 7‑19. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/58.1.7

    • Document type: conceptual analysis

    • Access: closed

  • • Eskritt, M., & Ma, S. (2014). Intentional forgetting : Note-taking as a naturalistic example. Memory & Cognition, 42(2), 237‑246. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-013-0362-1

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

  • • Kelly, M. O., & Risko, E. F. (2019). Offloading memory : Serial position effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(4), 1347‑1353. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01615-8

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

  • • Kelly, M. O., & Risko, E. F. (2019). The isolation effect when offloading memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8(4), 471‑480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.10.001

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Kelly, M. O., & Risko, E. F. (2022). Revisiting the influence of offloading memory on free recall. Memory & Cognition, 50(4), 710–721. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01237-3

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

  • • Lu, X., Kelly, M. O., & Risko, E. F. (2020). Offloading information to an external store increases false recall. Cognition, 104428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104428

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Morrison, A. B., & Richmond, L. L. (2020). Offloading items from memory: Individual differences in cognitive offloading in a short-term memory task. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0201-4

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

  • • Risko, E. F., & Gilbert, S. J. (2016). Cognitive offloading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(9), 676‑688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.07.002

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Risko, E. F., Kelly, M. O., Patel, P., & Gaspar, C. (2019). Offloading memory leaves us vulnerable to memory manipulation. Cognition, 191, 103954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.023

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Sparrow, B., Liu, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2011). Google effects on memory : Cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science, 333(6043), 776‑778. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207745

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Example

  • An example of cognitive offloading in memory is the use of an external storage system to offload the to-be-remembered information.

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-DXGB76S5-9

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