CiNet Monthly Seminar

August 8, 2023
16:00-18:00 JST (BST + 8:00)

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“Outsourcing memory to external technology: Effort, metacognition, and cognitive offloading”

Sam Gilbert
Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London, UK

Abstract:

In the course of an ordinary day, we repeatedly select between storing intentions in internal memory versus offloading them to external reminders such as diaries, to-do lists, and smartphone alerts. This is known as cognitive offloading. This talk will summarise a line of experimental work examining how people make such decisions, how this process changes across the lifespan, and how it relates to underlying brain activity. People have systematic biases in their offloading strategies which are stable over time. Evidence also shows that metacognitive processes play a key role in cognitive offloading, and can potentially explain individual differences and developmental changes in offloading strategies.
Therefore metacognitive interventions could play an important role in promoting individuals’ adaptive use of cognitive tools.

Bio:
https://samgilbert.net
Sam is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience based at Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. He has been one of the leading researchers of prospecitve, metacognitive aspect of human memory using Neuroimaging techniques. He once shared an office with Nobu while he was working at ICN/UCL.

Host : Nobuhiro Hagura