{"id":2986,"date":"2018-01-30T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2018-01-30T08:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:31:24","slug":"book-just-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/book-just-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"That Book You Were Just Reading&#8230;What Was It About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend remembered to send me an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/01\/what-was-this-article-about-again\/551603\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> on the perils of forgetting.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, if you read piles of books, you&#8217;re much less likely to remember the specifics of each one. The same holds true if you\u00a0binge-watch <em>This is Us\u00a0<\/em>or <em>Mr. Robot<\/em><em>. <\/em>Or power your way through three movies in an afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Author Julie Beck explores the science behind this irksome truth.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, she helpfully cites Betsy Sparrow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.ua.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Google-Is-Changing-the-Way-we-Think.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research<\/a> into the perils of Google. In brief, if I think a piece of information is available on Google, I&#8217;m less likely to remember it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing. And remember: quiz yourself about the article later&#8230;<\/p>\n[h\/t Chris Brady]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read piles of books, you&#8217;re much less likely to remember the specifics of each one. The same holds true if you\u00a0binge-watch This is Us\u00a0or Mr. Robot. Or power your way through three movies in an afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-long-term-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}