READING & RECALL
The sheer amount of information online forces our brains to look for short-cuts - just to cope with the volume
The most common short-cut it employs is to scan sentences (skipping common words) instead of reading it all.
Because of this, our reading and recall of health information from a printed format is four times more
effective than reading the same information on a digital device.
To be able to save information, and then recall it later, needs sufficient time for our brain to absorb it
fully - and transfer it from our short-term memory to our long-term memory
To do this naturally, reading needs our full attention and, if we get distracted during that process,
information we read may not be saved - and will be forgotten.