Every time you take a picture there will be a strange phenomenon happening to your brain that no one knows why

Every time you take a photo, your brain will have a strange phenomenon that science still cannot explain.

Perhaps now everyone has a phone, and everyone's phone has a camera integrated. So, no need to be a professional photographer, we can still take photos ourselves, keeping moments of the world around us.

In general, the photographic story is now too familiar. But according to a recent study, behind it is a strange phenomenon that happens to the brain that no one can explain.

Every time we take a picture, our brain becomes less flexible with memories related to the event taken.

Specifically, when taking photos, our brains become less flexible with memories related to the event taken. More importantly, this phenomenon still happens even if you don't bother to keep that picture.

This phenomenon was first published in 2013, as the "PIE photo-taking impairment effect" (PIE photo-taking effect). According to Linda Henkel, the study author, the group of experimental candidates found it difficult to remember the object details if they photographed the object.

In the study, Henkel brought students to a modern art gallery to get the results.

So we have a bad phenomenon that happens every time we take a picture, but what is the reason? Nobody knows, although Henkel makes a hypothesis.

She thinks our brains have viewed the camera as an external memory. With the expectation that the camera will help us remember everything, the brain also stops processing information to remember things.

The PIE phenomenon also disappears if the image is zoomed in more detail.

Of course, looking back at the picture later, you will recall the event taken at that time. However, photography affects short-term memory and the ability to recall details of memories, and this is unexplainable.

An interesting point is that the PIE phenomenon also disappears if the image is zoomed in more detail. So maybe taking photos will make our self-recall ability temporarily obscured, not completely gone.

Since then, there have been many other studies mentioning PIE, including recent research from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). Experts here believe that if the photograph taken is actively deleted, the PIE effect also disappears.

And they experimented with Snapchat. If you use this application, you also know that it has a mechanism to manually delete images after a period of time. However, contrary to expectations, even if the image is still lost, the effect still exists.

The more pictures you take, the more likely you are to remember your event.

In short, when taking a picture, be prepared for yourself that you may not be able to remember the event around the photo until you look back and watch it carefully. The reason is that nobody still knows.