On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Michael Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been reading some of the supermemo literature (which led me to > Mnemosyne), > and if I'm reading it right, there is something about "sleeping on it" that > helps with the whole process. > > Is this why Mnemosyne uses a granularity of a day?
I think the original reasons were just it's simpler for user & implementor, and that's the way SRS systems always did it - did anyone but Anki and Pimsleur do sub-day scheduling? > Also, given that, is there anything in the literature that indicates if doing > my > memory drills/flashcards during a particular time of day (relative to my sleep > cycle) is better than any other? Since sleep seems to play a role here, I > was > wondering if doing the drills just before bed is better (or worse?) > > Any literature speak to this? > > Thanks Offhand, I don't know of anything; but there *is* a study showing that doing dual N-back (training of working memory) before bed is somewhat more effective than upon waking. -- gwern --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
