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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 29 2019, @11:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-seem-to-remember-something-like-that dept.

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Researchers from Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Umeå University, Sweden, have for the first time obtained clear evidence of the important role strategies have in memory training. Training makes participants adopt various strategies to manage the task, which then affects the outcome of the training.

Strategy acquisition can also explain why the effects of memory training are so limited. Typically, improvements are limited only to tasks that are very similar to the training task -- training has provided ways to handle a given type of task, but not much else.

A newly published study sheds light on the underlying mechanisms of working memory training that have remained unclear. It rejects the original idea that repetitive computerized training can increase working memory capacity. Working memory training should rather be seen as a form of skill learning in which the adoption of task-specific strategies plays an important role. Hundreds of commercial training programs that promise memory improvements are available for the public. However, the effects of the programs do not extend beyond tasks similar to the ones one has been trained on.

Source: https://www.abo.fi/en/news/memory-training-builds-upon-strategy-use/

Journal Reference: Daniel Fellman, Jussi Jylkkä, Otto Waris, Anna Soveri, Liisa Ritakallio, Sarah Haga, Juha Salmi, Thomas J. Nyman, Matti Laine. The role of strategy use in working memory training outcomes. Journal of Memory and Language, 2020; 110: 104064 DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2019.104064


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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday October 29 2019, @12:52PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday October 29 2019, @12:52PM (#913243)

    It rejects the original idea that repetitive computerized training can increase working memory capacity. Working memory training should rather be seen as a form of skill learning in which the adoption of task-specific strategies plays an important role.

    Well, now you have solid proof: Memorizing identities until you can recite them isn't enough. Reading and "understanding" the theory isn't enough. Only way to learn math is to apply it by having Mama stand behind your back slapping you silly until you finish 2hours worth of algebra and trig every day.

    Funny thing is it well known in music pedagogy that learning theory beyond basic scale degrees or intervals just doesn't help in improvisation and that there's no helping the hours you need to play along each day for years until it becomes natural.

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