Our brain can potentially memorize 2.5 petabytes of information, which is roughly the equivalent of 3 million hours of YouTube videos.
In order to use some of that staggering capacity a little more effectively when you study, here are some tips that are based on widely-accepted research by neuroscientists and learning experts.
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Books:
- The Mind within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking, and Acting, by Manfred Spitzer (a.co/5zaSMdF)
- How we Learn, by Benedict Carey (a.co/aOJM4BW)
- A Mind For Numbers, by Barbara Oakley, (a.co/7T1Gur4)
Sources:
Brain Capacity
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/
Spaced Repetition
science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1173.full
www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/while-you-were-sleeping-synapses-forged-amyloid-purged
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition#Research_and_applications
Find your own Style
www.br-online.de/jugend/izi/english/publication/televizion/25_2012_E/huether_learning.pdf
Good Night Sleep
www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/give-it-time-and-sleep-25022
Spaced Repetition
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition#Research_and_applications
Pomodoro
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Hard Stuff first
staciechoice1010.wordpress.com/category/learning-solutions-in-action/
Expertise, Meditate, Converse
www.ted.com/talks/sandrine_thuret_you_can_grow_new_brain_cells_here_s_how
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004979/
Go Places
www.tamu.edu/faculty/stevesmith/SmithMemory/SmithSageChapter.pdf
Take Fun Seriously
www.edutopia.org/blog/neuroscience-behind-stress-and-learning-judy-willis
Space Your Studies
www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/shkim/Bahrick et al.
(1993) spacing effect.pdf
70% Recite vs 30% Memorizse
archive.org/details/recitationasfact00gaterich
Instant Self-Test
learninglab.psych.purdue.edu/downloads/2006_Roediger_Karpicke_PsychSci.pdf
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