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Cognitive Offloading

Cognitive Offloading is a cognitive strategy whereby individuals utilize external resources or environmental affordances to reduce the mental effort required for information processing, decision-making, or memory retention.

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4K

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108

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58

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2017–2026

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Publications

63

AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking

Michael Gerlich · Societies · 2025 · 630 citations · Full text

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Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective

Zhicheng Liu, John Stasko · IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2010 · 255 citations

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The Self-Regulation-View in Writing-to-Learn: Using Journal Writing to Optimize Cognitive Load in Self-Regulated Learning

Matthias Nückles, Julian Roelle, Inga Glogger‐Frey et al. · Educational Psychology Review · 2020 · 207 citations · Full text

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Storing information in-the-world: Metacognition and cognitive offloading in a short-term memory task

Evan F. Risko, Timothy L. Dunn · Consciousness and Cognition · 2015 · 193 citations

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Strategic offloading of delayed intentions into the external environment

Sam J. Gilbert · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 2014 · 160 citations · Full text

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Authors

108

  1. SJ
    Sam J. Gilbert

    University College London, United Kingdom

    15 publications · 829 citations

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  2. HS
    Hauke S. Meyerhoff

    Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Germany

    7 publications · 289 citations

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  3. FP
    Frank Papenmeier

    University of Tübingen, Germany

    6 publications · 272 citations

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  4. SG
    Sandra Grinschgl

    University of Graz, Austria

    6 publications · 311 citations

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  5. JR
    Jonathan Redshaw

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    3 publications · 138 citations

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Institutions

58

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    33 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. University of Tübingen

    Tübingen, Germany

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    578 citations

  3. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien

    Tübingen, Germany

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    338 citations

  4. University of Graz

    Graz, Austria

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    274 citations

  5. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    329 citations

  6. George Mason University

    Fairfax, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    260 citations

  7. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    44 citations

  8. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    312 citations

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Venues

  1. Memory

    5 publications · 278 citations

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  2. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications

    4 publications · 238 citations

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  3. Cognitive Science

    4 publications · 297 citations

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  4. Educational Psychology Review

    3 publications · 287 citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    3 publications · 76 citations

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