Effect of digital technologies to student memory

Abstract

Digital technologies have influenced to each of the stages of human lives, and also memory skills of the students. According to the literature it was mentioned that when information is saved or made readily available online, there is less need to encode or maintain access to that information within the biological structures of memory. Nowadays the students  depend on the Internet and various digital sources to learn and remember, but in another hand there is the implications and consequences of this dependence that effect their mental health. The present material provides an introduction of research about the effect of digital technologies on memory. It focuses in particular on issues related to transactive memory, cognitive