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Story summary
- Researchers led by Craig Fellers of UC Santa Cruz found that digital reminders reduced later prospective-memory performance.
- In two online experiments with 108 and 280 undergraduates, reminders improved accuracy on the supported task but gave no benefit to the other task.
- In the larger experiment, more explicit reminders lowered performance on the non-offloaded memory task.
- When reminders disappeared, participants recalled fewer future tasks than participants who never used reminders.
