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Frequent use of apps can impair attention and concentration, while use in a judicious manner seems to enhance performance.
Artificial intelligence solutions services such as ChatGPT (400 million people online every week) provide their users with texts whose content they very quickly forget.
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This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°223 dated October/December 2025.
Google, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok… Since the internet's arrival in the 1990s, our daily lives have radically changed, and apps have become central to our lives. This has even raised concerns: do they have an impact on cognition, particularly on memory? Despite three decades of hindsight, no definitive scientific evidence supports this.
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