13 Study Tips: The Science of Better Learning

Our brain can potentially memorize 2.5 petabytes of information, which is roughly the equivalent of 3 million hours of YouTube videos. In order to use some of that staggering capacity a little more effectively when you study, here are some tips that are based on widely-accepted research by neuroscientists and learning experts. #learn #learning #studying

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Books:
The Mind within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking, and Acting, by Manfred Spitzer (a.co/5zaSMdF)
How we Learn, by Benedict Carey (a.co/aOJM4BW)
A Mind For Numbers, by Barbara Oakley, (a.co/7T1Gur4)

Sources:
Brain Capacity
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-mem…

Spaced Repetition
science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1173.full
www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/while-you-were…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition#Research_a…

Find your own Style
www.br-online.de/jugend/izi/english/publication/te…

Good Night Sleep
www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/give-it-time-and-sleep…

Spaced Repetition
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition#Research_a…

Pomodoro
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Hard Stuff first
staciechoice1010.wordpress.com/category/learning-s…

Expertise, Meditate, Converse
www.ted.com/talks/sandrine_thuret_you_can_grow_new…
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004979/

Go Places
www.tamu.edu/faculty/stevesmith/SmithMemory/SmithS…

Take Fun Seriously
www.edutopia.org/blog/neuroscience-behind-stress-a…

Space Your Studies
www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/shkim/Bahrick%20et%20a…

70% Recite vs 30% Memorizse
archive.org/details/recitationasfact00gaterich

Instant Self-Test
learninglab.psych.purdue.edu/downloads/2006_Roedig…