This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve was postulated in the late 19th century by the German Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. He tested his memory to see when he started to forget things he has learned. After he…
There’s a reason why people often forget to take a daily medication or respond to that email they’ve been meaning to send, and it can be chalked up to the gulf between intention and actually completing an action, according to new research co-written by a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign expert who studies social psychology….
The results show that during slow wave sleep, the largest connections are maintained while the smaller ones are lost. This brain mechanism improves the signal-to-noise ratio — important information remains and the dispensable is discarded — and allows the storage of various types of information from one day to the next without losing the previous…
Overcome the evil twin of the learning curve. Source: A mathematical model of the “forgetting curve” proves learning is hard Reviewing information is not enough to remember, time has to pass to reinforce the memorization of the informaiton.