Study Alert: New memory retention study finds reading hard copy is better than reading online

A University of Oregon study shows that readers of the printed New York Times “remember significantly more news stories than online news readers.” Continue reading

A University of Oregon study shows that readers of the printed New York Times “remember significantly more news stories than online news readers.”  Additionally, the study shows that print readers “remember significantly more topics than online newsreaders” and that print readers remembered “more main points of news stories.”

For anyone studying for an exam and thinking about what type of study material to use, this study from Arthur D. Santana, Randall Livingstone and Yoon Cho is something to be aware of.  Click on the following link below for the full article:

http://img.slate.com/media/66/MediumMatters.pdf.

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