Strategies to Improve Memory & Learning
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It’s long been speculated that there’s a critical period for learning a new language, but the specifics are a matter of debate. It is difficult to follow a sufficient number of language learners through their years of learning. |
Confirming what many of us have learned through practical experience, a study comparing different strategies of reading or listening has found that you are more likely to remember something if you read it out loud to yourself. |
In a series of experiments involving college students, drawing pictures was found to be the best strategy for remembering lists of words. |
A study involving 60 undergraduate students confirms the value of even a single instance of retrieval practice in an everyday setting, and also confirms the value of cues for peripheral details, which are forgotten more readily. |
A Canadian study involving French-speaking university students has found that repeating aloud, especially to another person, improves memory for words. |
Sleep, as I have said on many occasions, helps your brain consolidate new memories. I have reported before on a number of studies showing how sleep helps the learning of various types of new information. |
Mindfulness meditation is associated with various positive benefits, one of which is improved attention, but it might not be all good. A new study suggests that it may have negative cognitive consequences. |
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- Everyday memory strategies
- Improving attention
- Mnemonics
- Photographic Memory
- Practice counts! So does talent
- Knowing what to do
- Metamemory
- A cognitive failure is generally a strategy failure
- Have we really forgotten how to remember?
- Memory is complicated
- Why asking the right questions is so important, and how to do it
- Successful remembering requires effective self-monitoring
- Why it’s important to work out the specific skills you want to improve
- Variety is the key to learning
- The most effective learning balances same and different context
- What babies can teach us about effective information-seeking and management
- Shaping your cognitive environment for optimal cognition
- Retraining the brain
- Finding the right strategy through perception and physical movement
- Subliminal & sleep learning
- When are two (or more) heads better than one?
- Approaches to learning another language