Imagine if you remembered EVERYTHING ! How distressing and disturbing that would be. Our ability to 'Forget everything' saves our lives from clutter and distraction.
Then routine; or special memory techniques keep the useful or necessary memories alive. George On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Dougie Nisbet <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes that is interesting. It would explain a few things. I know in my > experience if I'm reading something that I find very interesting and easy to > understand I assume that I will remember it better, and get very frustrated > when some time later I can't recall the information. This might explain why. > > Dougie > > > On 16/09/2011 18:53, George Wade wrote: > > Fascinating. Will require a rewiring of old habits to try it out. Easy > when you're 71. > George > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/opinion/sunday/quality-homework-a-smart-idea.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all >> >> > Another common misconception about how we learn holds that if >> information feels easy to absorb, we’ve learned it well. In fact, the >> opposite is true. When we work hard to understand information, we recall it >> better; the extra effort signals the brain that this knowledge is worth >> keeping. This phenomenon, known as cognitive disfluency, promotes learning >> so effectively that psychologists have devised all manner of “desirable >> difficulties” to introduce into the learning process: >> > > >> >Interleaving produces the same sort of improvement in academic >> learning.... >> >> -- >> gwern >> http://www.gwern.net > > -- 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.
