A story I have enjoyed many times :
http://robinlea.com/pub/FunesTheMemorious.html
On 09/17/2011 01:50 AM, George Wade wrote:
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....
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