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Prior Knowledge Powers Performance, Learning
Editor’s note: This article explores how prior knowledge – what we know – fits in with how our memory works. It also explores the implications for L&D professionals.
Browsing: memory
‘Sleeping On It’ Really Does Help You Solve Your Problems
Editor’s note: Research suggests that ‘sleeping on it’ can help solve more complex problems.
Memory and learning: myths and truths
Editor’s note: Useful run down of myths about memory and learning from Dr Piotr Wozniak. Thankyou to @rapidbi for sharing
More evidence on the unreliability of memory
Editor’s note: Link here to research and a podcast on false memory – amazing how wrong we can be . . .
Why older minds make better decisions
Editor’s note: Research shows that older adults tend to make better decisions and that they retain more important information despite the fact memory deteriorates.
Does photographic memory exist?
Editor’s note: And the answer is that we all have a kind of photographic memory, in that most people’s memory for visual material is much better and more detailed than our recall of most other kinds of material.
Stress breaks loops that hold short-term memory together
Editor’s note: This research looks into the impact of stress on working memory – the short-term juggling of information that allows us to do all the little things that make us productive.
Brain filter for clear information transmission: neuronal inhibition is key for memory formation
Editor’s note: The information we learn or remember is processed in the brain through nerve impulses. Researchers have shown how the brain ensures the right impulses get through to neurons.