tells us that testing yourself with practice questions and leaving space between study sessions enhances learning and long-term memory. Ultimately, these approaches save time.
In my educational research in the department of kinesiology at Western University, I am interested in how people learn, and what small changes instructors and students can make to improve their results. My priority is to understand how novice students learn anatomy and which cognitive strategies can optimize learning, both academically and in daily life.
available for you to use and combine with other things you already know or are experiencing in the moment This is what happens, for example, when you try to remember a phone number. While focusing on the number, you might pull in relevant information about the person you plan to call or memorization tricks you’ve used for phone numbers in the past.
When the information in your working memory stops being used, however, its presence fades. Its transition from newly learned to long-remembered