Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Seven years ago, I uploaded my first YouTube video to BrainCraft. I had it fact-checked, and sat down to watch it for the first time since 2013.
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MY FIRST VIDEO 👀
Is Google Killing Your Memory? youtu.be/qoFMGLTjUTM

The Google Effect is the tendency to forget info we can easily find online, like “digital amnesia.” But how strong is this effect, really?

Fact-checking by Hannah Thomasy
Edited by Dominique Taylor

REFERENCES 📚 (from the original video)
The fMRI images are from this study-How Google is reshaping your brain: youtu.be/2jk2scOd2ps
The scientific paper [$]: ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481(12)60731-3

I was also inspired by this study-How memory works differently in the age of Google: youtu.be/ihgXRWaIlVE
The scientific paper [$]: sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/776

MUSIC 🎵 (in the original video)
Bass Walker - Film Noir by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200071
Artist: incompetech.com