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I notice that my recall is much better if I had learned the information while moving... either driving a car (actively aware of my surroundings) or on a walk.
by jmpman 7y ago
I notice that my recall is much better if I had learned the information while moving... either driving a car (actively aware of my surroundings) or on a walk. I can typically think back to exactly where I was when I learned something.
- jcims 7y agoI think I have a related thing going on in my brain. My recall ability is poor to middling, but if I listen to a podcast a second time within a week or two of the first, I have these intrusive and extremely vivid scenes play out in my mind from the first time I listened to the podcast. I want to try an experiment where I film my first listen, then a week later re-listen and narrate the 'film' without watching it to see how close i am.
- nkrisc 7y agoKind of similar experience. As a kid, when we'd go on a road trip, on the way back I'd remember everything I was thinking about on the trip there, but in reverse order. It was the landmarks and scenes that triggered the recall of what I had been thinking about when I saw it the on the trip there.
- Bartweiss 7y agoIt's interesting that you cite driving, because I often see people assume this is exercise-linked. Also interesting: the study doesn't address motion, but it did try to control for the circumstances of learning and recall: if the mice were tested "late in the day", they performed similarly badly whether they had learned the task early or late in the day.