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Regarding doodling, it seems that any active productive study method is at least somewhat beneficial. I've found this in my own personal experiments. For exampl

Regarding doodling, it seems that any active productive study method is at least somewhat beneficial. I've found this in my own personal experiments. For example, testing myself with cloze deletions, creating Anki cards, generating mind maps, Cornell notes, inline annotation/marginalia, doodling, generating questions, generating mnemonics, mind palaces, etc. An interesting one is reading and reciting out loud: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2017.1383434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2017.1... Another non-intuitive method that is helping me a lot is pacing around my house slowly while I read. It goes to show that cognition is an embodied phenomenon. It's unintuitive when intelligence is viewed from the traditional split mind/body paradigm but just take a look at an image of our nervous systems. Those wires to and from our brain and guts wrap around every part of us.

westurner 5y ago
Memory and retention in learning > Methods of improving memory and retention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_and_retention_in_learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_and_retention_in_learni... Mnemosyne/Anki, (FreeMind, yEd, Gephi, AtomSpace as-moses, RDF bnodes, ONNX,) mind maps, RestructuredRext, MyST-Markdown, todo.txt (TaskWarrior,), StructuredProcrastination, ActivityWatch, Dogsheep, *-to-sqlite, awesome-quantified-self, https://github.com/woop/awesome-quantified-self https://github.com/woop/awesome-quantified-self But metrics for actual memory retention? I've heard of TinCan xAPI w/ a LRS. nbgrader, Khan Academy exercises, OpenBadges to demonstrate proficiency,
- izzygonzalez 5y ago
  Awesome. Thanks for the resources. Coincidentally, I stumbled on this research today on the effect of exercise + meditation on word recall: https://hpp.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/hpp-9-314.pdf https://hpp.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/hpp-9-314.pdf
  - westurner 5y ago
    "Episodic memory enhancement versus impairment is determined by contextual similarity across events" (2021) https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2101509118 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2101509118 From "How Our Environment Affects What We Remember" https://neurosciencenews.com/environment-memory-20165/amp/ https://neurosciencenews.com/environment-memory-20165/amp/

westurner 5y ago

Memory and retention in learning > Methods of improving memory and retention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_and_retention_in_learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_and_retention_in_learni... Mnemosyne/Anki, (FreeMind, yEd, Gephi, AtomSpace as-moses, RDF bnodes, ONNX,) mind maps, RestructuredRext, MyST-Markdown, todo.txt (TaskWarrior,), StructuredProcrastination, ActivityWatch, Dogsheep, *-to-sqlite, awesome-quantified-self, https://github.com/woop/awesome-quantified-self https://github.com/woop/awesome-quantified-self But metrics for actual memory retention? I've heard of TinCan xAPI w/ a LRS. nbgrader, Khan Academy exercises, OpenBadges to demonstrate proficiency,

izzygonzalez 5y ago
Awesome. Thanks for the resources. Coincidentally, I stumbled on this research today on the effect of exercise + meditation on word recall: https://hpp.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/hpp-9-314.pdf https://hpp.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/hpp-9-314.pdf
- westurner 5y ago
  "Episodic memory enhancement versus impairment is determined by contextual similarity across events" (2021) https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2101509118 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2101509118 From "How Our Environment Affects What We Remember" https://neurosciencenews.com/environment-memory-20165/amp/ https://neurosciencenews.com/environment-memory-20165/amp/