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Walking + Texting = Forgeting

Cell Phone Use Linked to Decreased Memory

Talking on a cell phone or texting might have an unexpectedly troubling downside. Researchers at Stony Brook University, in New York, studied young people that were texting while walking and discovered that they walked slower, veered off course more and experienced decreased working memory.

This article appears in the August 2012 issue of Natural Awakenings

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