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Prince was right. If you really want to remember a moment, try not to take a photo Linda Henkel, a professor of psychology at Fairfield University in Connecticut, studied how taking photos impacts experience and memory by crafting an experiment using a group of undergraduates on a guided tour of the university’s Bellarmine Museum of Art. The students were asked to take photos of objects that they looked at on the tour and to simply observe others. The next day, she brought the students into her research lab to test their memory of all the objects they had seen on the tour. Whenever they remembered a piece of work, she asked follow-up questions about specific visual details. The results were clear: overall, people remembered fewer of the objects they had photographed. They also couldn’t recall as many specific visual details of the photographed art, compared to the art they had merely observed. http://ideas.ted.com/if-y...photo/amp/ | |
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And how much does the group without pics still remember after 6 months? You know,when the other group still can look at the pics they have? |
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On a similar vein, I've always felt this way about music videos. I will admit that I was an MTV junkie when it first came on. But after a few years, I realized I was associating new songs with videos, whereas I associated old songs with actual life experiences. | |
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the human brain can destroy memories and the individual can distort the image
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I know from personal experience that that is true. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder | |
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I wouldn't say that taking a picture doesn't preserve an event, we all know that's not true. But I'm sure we all have tons of old family photographs that nobody remembers a thing about what's going or who's in them, so just taking a picture in and of itself doesn't preserve the memory either, though it preserves the accuracy of the event, unless there is a narrative attached, the photo doesn't mean much. [Edited 9/27/17 16:26pm] | |
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