Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory (qz.com) 54
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."
News? (Score:4, Insightful)
Anyone who ever had to learn stuff knows this.
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But apparently some people still need to read it to themselves aloud.
With politicians, the more often they say their own lies out loud, the more likely they will believe their own lies later:
Walter Ulbricht, the former communist leader of East Germany (DDR) was often asked about rumors of the planning to build the Berlin Wall. His answer?
The builders of our capital are fully engaged in residential construction, and its labor force is deployed for that. Nobody has the intention to erect a wall.
15 June 1961 at a press conference in East Berlin. Less than two months later
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Sure, handwriting helps too. Each person's MMV. This has been common knowledge for decades
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So the best way to remember something is to say it out loud while writing it. Since we usually read what we write, that's three senses: visual, audio and motor reflexes.
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How do you listen to yourself without reading it ? (Score:1)
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 ?
Re: How do you listen to yourself without reading (Score:4, Insightful)
If you listen to a recording of yourself, all you'll remember is "Do I really sound like that?!".
Transcription (Score:1)
Copying written material by hand, or creating precis does it even better.
Preprint? (Score:2)
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You missed! Read this aloud to yourself:
The "Reply to This" link is below the comment, not above.
As a kid (Score:2)
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
I talk to myself while I perform tasks (Score:3)
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.
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Wear a bluetooth ear piece. Problem solved.
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Wear a bluetooth ear piece. Problem solved.
Won't I attract attention if it looks like I've traveled here from the past?
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I talk my way through the room when drunk as well, and I know a lot of others who do it while high - same concept.
It is very well known (Score:2)
Not quite 100 things that will SHOCK you! (Score:1)
1. The power socket in the north wall of the kitchen
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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
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Read aloud, yes, but whose voice? (Score:2)
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.
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Really? I have known this since my college times. (Score:1)