HOW TO TAKE A PHOTO TO ENHANCE YOUR MEMORY Even if you can’t bear to face a computer hard drive that’s nightmarishly filled with photos, in Henkel’s experiments, there was one way in which taking pictures did not erode people’s memories. Back on that tour of the art museum, “When participants zoomed in to photograph a specific part of the object, their subsequent recognition and detail memory was not impaired, and, in fact, memory for features that were not zoomed in on was just as strong as memory for features that were zoomed in on,” the professor wrote in her study. “This suggests that the
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