cognitive offloading / délestage cognitif
Synonymes : déchargement cognitif
Group: Human, Psychology
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie
Definition: "The use of physical action to alter the information processing requirements of a task so as to reduce cognitive demand" (Risko & Gilbert, 2016).
Définition : « Utilisation d'une action physique pour modifier les exigences de traitement de l'information d'une tâche afin de réduire la sollicitation cognitive » (Risko & Gilbert, 2016).
Broader term: external strategy
Terme générique : stratégie externe
Narrower terms: note-taking
Termes spécifiques : prise de notes
Related terms: extended cognition hypothesis, saving-enhanced memory effect, Google effect, photo-taking impairment effect
Termes associés : hypothèse de la cognition étendue, effet de mémoire améliorée par la sauvegarde, effet Google, effet perturbateur de la prise de photos
Editorial note: An example of cognitive offloading in memory is the use of an external storage system to offload the to-be-remembered information.
Note éditoriale : Un exemple de délestage cognitif en mémoire est l’utilisation d'un système de stockage externe pour délester les informations dont il faut se souvenir.
Selected bibliography: Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998). The extended mind. Analysis, 58(1), 7‑19. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/58.1.7 [Study type: conceptual analysis / Access: closed], Eskritt, M., & Ma, S. (2014). Intentional forgetting : Note-taking as a naturalistic example. Memory & Cognition, 42(2), 237‑246. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-013-0362-1 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Kelly, M. O., & Risko, E. F. (2019). Offloading memory : Serial position effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(4), 1347‑1353. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01615-8 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Kelly, M. O., & Risko, E. F. (2019). The isolation effect when offloading memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8(4), 471‑480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.10.001 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Kelly, M. O., & Risko, E. F. (2022). Revisiting the influence of offloading memory on free recall. Memory & Cognition, 50(4), 710–721. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01237-3 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Lu, X., Kelly, M. O., & Risko, E. F. (2020). Offloading information to an external store increases false recall. Cognition, 104428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104428 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Morrison, A. B., & Richmond, L. L. (2020). Offloading items from memory: Individual differences in cognitive offloading in a short-term memory task. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0201-4 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Risko, E. F., & Gilbert, S. J. (2016). Cognitive offloading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(9), 676‑688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.07.002 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Risko, E. F., Kelly, M. O., Patel, P., & Gaspar, C. (2019). Offloading memory leaves us vulnerable to memory manipulation. Cognition, 191, 103954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.023 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Sparrow, B., Liu, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2011). Google effects on memory : Cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science, 333(6043), 776‑778. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207745 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
Dataset citations: Kelly, M. O., & Lab, C. (2021, September 17). Serial Position: Isolation effects. https://osf.io/e5wrh, Röhrle, I., Grinschgl, S., Papenmeier, F., & Meyerhoff, H. S. (2021, March 23). Cognitive Offloading Long-Term Memory. https://osf.io/ke9dj