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What is the neuroscience research upon which the techniques are based? Do you have any paper or book references? It could be insightful for a visitor to the sit

What is the neuroscience research upon which the techniques are based? Do you have any paper or book references? It could be insightful for a visitor to the site to be given more context.

roznoshchik 5y ago
Hey, I don't have any specific papers. And I think neuroscience makes it sound fancier than it maybe is in reality. But the primary concepts are spaced-repetition, elaborative encoding, and active recall. And the main focus is really on reducing friction with putting these practices into play.
- alan-hn 5y ago
  I think the reality of neuroscience and behavioral research at this point in time is that it's just really difficult to translate neuro -> behavior and thought processes. There are some decently well researched learning methods, such as spaced repetition and enhancing depth of knowledge but we don't have a totally clear picture on why these things work well. There are suspicions of course, such as how deeper knowledge of a subject is able to integrate the information into more parts of the network, but afaik the actual biochemical mechanisms and how those translate into network dynamics and recall for a lot of memory and learning functions are still fairly unknown. If anyone knows of some solid studies (preferably using humans) I would be more than happy to read them, learning and memory is a fascinating area of neuroscience.
  - network2592 5y ago
    Hopefully, with relatively new equipment that allows more precise realtime brain sensing, we should have more insightful research in the years to come.[0] But the issue of defining learning itself will remain thorny. [0] https://www.kernel.com/ https://www.kernel.com/
Vivtek 5y ago
Here's a reasonable overview: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3988 https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3988 I'm not sure that one touches on neuroscience; it's more psych-oriented if I remember correctly.

What is the neuroscience research upon which the techniques are based? Do you have any paper or book references? It could be insightful for a visitor to the site to be given more context.

roznoshchik 5y ago

Hey, I don't have any specific papers. And I think neuroscience makes it sound fancier than it maybe is in reality. But the primary concepts are spaced-repetition, elaborative encoding, and active recall. And the main focus is really on reducing friction with putting these practices into play.

alan-hn 5y ago
I think the reality of neuroscience and behavioral research at this point in time is that it's just really difficult to translate neuro -> behavior and thought processes. There are some decently well researched learning methods, such as spaced repetition and enhancing depth of knowledge but we don't have a totally clear picture on why these things work well. There are suspicions of course, such as how deeper knowledge of a subject is able to integrate the information into more parts of the network, but afaik the actual biochemical mechanisms and how those translate into network dynamics and recall for a lot of memory and learning functions are still fairly unknown. If anyone knows of some solid studies (preferably using humans) I would be more than happy to read them, learning and memory is a fascinating area of neuroscience.
- network2592 5y ago
  Hopefully, with relatively new equipment that allows more precise realtime brain sensing, we should have more insightful research in the years to come.[0] But the issue of defining learning itself will remain thorny. [0] https://www.kernel.com/ https://www.kernel.com/

Vivtek 5y ago

Here's a reasonable overview: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3988 https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3988 I'm not sure that one touches on neuroscience; it's more psych-oriented if I remember correctly.