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Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory (qz.com)
According to a study in the journal Memory, reading aloud works by creating a "production effect" which cements information in your memory. Meanwhile, hearing words said in your own voice personalizes the references and enhances recollection, according to psychology professor Colin MacLeod and researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Quartz reports: The findings are based on a study of 95 students (75 of whom returned for a second session) at the University of Waterloo. The students were tested on their ability to recall written information inputted in four different ways -- reading silently, hearing someone else read, listening to a recording of oneself reading, and reading aloud in real time. They were tested on recollection of short, four-to-six letter words on a list of 160 terms. The results show that reading information aloud to oneself led to the best recall. Oral production is effective because it has two distinctive components, a motor or speech act and a personal auditory input, the researchers explain. "[The] results suggest that production is memorable in part because it includes a distinctive, self-referential component. This may well underlie why rehearsal is so valuable in learning and remembering," the study concludes. "We do it ourselves, and we do it in our own voice. When it comes time to recover the information, we can use this distinctive component to help us to remember."
Anyone who ever had to learn stuff knows this.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
How did they do the "listening to a recording of oneself reading" without previously doing the "reading aloud" bit ( which would spoil the results ) ?
Voice synthesizers ?
Copying written material by hand, or creating precis does it even better.
The original article is paywalled. Does any have a pre-print? I'd like to read it aloud to myself.
Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in the movies.
So how does this work when I can't hear myself at all?
This was "a study of 95 students (75 of whom returned for a second session)". Did the other 20 forget?
Article is written by a priest.
It could easily be done by wearing headphones/plugs to prevent one from hearing oneself.
Test speaking vs simultaneous playback vs delayed replay.
As a kid (and sometimes adult) I find myself reading things allowed in my head. I always had VERY high recall rates for reading things, I was (and kind of am) just slower at it. :)
Although it's a smaller sample size perhaps, I'd be willing to believe this. Need to look at the study though
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Are you guessing or is that what the researchers did ?!
Because if they had read it already it would not be a good test, even if they had not actually heard themselves reading
And you hear yourself speak even when wearing headphones
I describe what I'm doing. When I do it again, I can almost hear myself giving advice. I don't always actually vocalize, sometimes I only subvocalize. It depends on if there's someone nearby who will think I'm some kind of weirdo dingbat.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
A common reading mistake taught in the early years of elementary school was teachers telling students to form and speak difficult words in their head before actually speaking them. This sets up an almost inescapable trend of speaking every word in their head even when reading silently, which causes a lifetime of slow comprehension. People not affected by this can read and comprehend faster than people who were taught to speak words in their head before speaking them aloud.
I sometimes talk through difficult debugging.
Pisses off my colleagues :-)
Why do they all live in cities? Have you ever seen a black person in the country? I haven't.
So I *know* memorizing techniques and I have seen it work and I have struggled without it. I think setting some kind of cadence, rhythm and tune would help you memorize even better.
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Those who are old enough know who uttered that infamous phrase
And yes, THAT IS A LIE !!
http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/09658211.2017.1383434#
To liberate it from the paywall...because this study was paid by good people of Canada.
(Discovery Grant [A7459] from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).)
This was always the beef I had with teachers: They wanted me to read stuff aloud or copy some text by hand. So I would memorize it better, according to them.
But with me, this completely *conflicted* with memorization! It was mutually exclusive! Doing it that way was a surefire way to have me not remember a damn thing!
Because I am a visual/structural thinker!
And so are a large chunk of the popilulation!
We think in imagery and visual patterns! To memorize something, we need to *not* activate the speech center, and fast-path right from the visual center to basically a mind movier!
Wich is also ridiculously quicker! Like 1 page in 5 seconds quick!
I only got good at math, when I threw away the (for me) cancer of forcing it into a language, and learned it the visual way! (I can wholeheartedly recommend 3blue1brown's YouTube channel. The guy's mind is right up there with Richard Feinmann!)
So while this is nice for the speech minds out there, is is very much harmful to everyone else!
Not that memorization isn't a stupid concept to begin with. I rather *understand* a single concept, and be able to generate 10,000 cases from it when reequired, than idiotically memorize a always-incomplete list of "100 ... things that will SHOCK you"!
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There should have been a segment in that study where reading aloud in the voice of the Simpson's comic book guy skews the statistics adversely, creating the opposite effect.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
...Of a tiny number of people selected from a population that is already highly homogeneous, which is further homogenized by age, education, and probably other socioeconomic factors, studies conducted using minuscule samples of already homogeneous populations testing highly subjective things are completely fucking worthless, and any information gleaned that happens to be true is true only by accident, coincidentally. Iâ(TM)m pretty sick of shit like this being presented seriously as if itâ(TM)s rigorous science. Must be a slow news day.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
Easy to forget location. Especially if available lockers change each time. I also choose the same general region. I dont distinctive color the lock like some have done.
If you listen to a recording of yourself, all you'll remember is "Do I really sound like that?!".
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3. The power socket above the kitchen countertop
4. The power socket in the north wall of the living room
5. The power socket in the west wall of the living room
6. The power socket in your bedroom
7. That old toaster you're still using that you bought when you were a student three decades ago
8. The damaged wire of your laptop power supply
9. Your electric toothbrush
10. Your car's battery
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17 years ago I took a college course named "How to learn to learn" and I must admit it was some of the best invested time ever. There are generally 5 main yet simple methods how to cram information from one's short term memory to one's long term memory. This one is one of them.
Since the people who heard themselves reading also spoke the words while recording them, they should have the best recall.
strangely, using electrons instead of air alone to get the sound of your voice to your ears
- is even better than real-time!
- the lowered latency increases coherence
- and makes the learning even more effective.
- give it a try! turn that loop on now. Profit!
FWIW, through personal experience, I've learned that the best way to proofread read my writing is to read it aloud. When I read it in my head its super easy to miss grammar errors, duped words, poor phrasing, etc. I assume that's because I know what I meant and my brain just subconsciously fixes it. But reading it aloud goes through some other mental pathway and all that stuff becomes glaringly obvious.
But, reading aloud is a PITA. I've tried using text-to-speech to do it for me and that's almost as good, but still slow. So I don't do it often. Like, for instance, with this post.
I don't even have half of those things!