Forget Ritalin and Cramming: Molecular Pathways in the Brain May Reveal the Best Learning Strategies
Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 18:00
in Psychology & Sociology
High-school and college teachers always entreat their charges to forgo the cramming. Studying bit by bit over the course of a semester is the way to go. A study published online in Nature Neuroscience on December 25 not only appears to demonstrate the biological underpinnings of this pedagogical truism. It actually goes one step further to suggest a means of optimizing training intervals, an insight that could, in theory, translate into strategies for committing to memory the molecular structure of maitotoxin or a Chinese ideogram. [More]