# Professor Alixandra Barasch's research on the impact of taking photos on visual memory is spotlighted

1 Faculty News August 16, 2017 ![Daily Mail logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032858.jpg?itok=m26FE-Qc)>

Excerpt from the [Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4789440/Regular-use-Instagram-improve-memory.html) -- "'These findings suggest that having a camera changes how people approach an experience in a fundamental way,' the authors said, according to Science Daily. 'Even when people don't take a photo of a particular object, like a sculpture, but have a camera with them and the intention to take photos, they remember that sculpture better than people who did not have a camera with them.'"

[Read more](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4789440/Regular-use-Instagram-improve-memory.html)