For questions about acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences. Learning may involve synthesizing different types of information.
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Is it a good idea to play an instrument while studying? If so, what are the benefits?
We've all heard that listening to classical music and such while studying can be beneficial, but I was wondering about actually playing an instrument? If I were to absentmindedly play my accordion ...
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Dyslexia and IQ
Background Information of my questions:
At the age of eight I was "diagnosed" with Dyslexia, I am now 47. I went from not being able to read and barely able to write to a college reading level in 9 ...
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Why can a user seamlessly switch from one language input to another on the same keyboard?
The question regards the phenomenon where a user can switch context on the same tool seamlessly, and as it seems without thinking. The only practical use of the phenomenon that I know of is the ...
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What positive techniques can be used to motivate individuals resistant to common gamification techniques?
A previous question I asked dealt with Gamification techniques to encourage people to perform online workplace training.
We are hoping that we can introduce some game techniques to lift the ...
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What is the optimal length of a training session?
When a practice session is too long, there will presumably be a point where no further significant gains can be made without a break. At what point will this be?
Update: This question was originally ...
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What is the relationship between language and the level of comprehension of consciousness?
I asked a similar/related question a couple days ago about how language and/or culture affect an individual's cognitive capacity.
I'm looking for materials, if any, on the subject of a language's ...
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How much time is required to relearn a subject after x years?
I'm searching for research answering or giving any form of insight to this question:
How long does it take a person to relearn something (any type of learning) when relearning happens x, x+1, ...
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Combinatorial woes
I am interested in the creation of chunks (aka configural nodes) from smaller chunks and input features (only interested in System 1 cognition).
Unitization studies (e.g. Goldstone (pdf)), suggest ...
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Does dream recall interfere with “reverse learning”? (Crick and Mitchison's theory of REM sleep)
I've recently became aware of the idea of "reverse learning" that might happen during REM sleep - the brain's attempt to eliminate pathological attractors that might appear in neural networks. The ...
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What is the upper bound on rate of learning in young adults?
I was wondering how a normal adult in their 20s could best structure their life to make best use of their capacity to learn. (I am no expert in cognitive science, so I assume just a really common ...
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In what ways can someone increase their brain function while reading
On Facebook, someone posed the following question:
In what ways can someone increase brain function while reading? I like to read but have problems retaining information. Sometimes I get a ...
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classic category learning tasks with data
I need a list of classic categorization tasks (with available human/animal data) to use as a benchmark for a model.
I am interested in tasks that can be used to validate/invalidate a model of ...
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Are “diagnostic” senses/feelings for brain study possible?
Modern science has quite an array of methods trying to localize and analyze brain activity, trying to get down to individual neurons firing: EEG, fMRI, CT, etc. This requires very expensive machines ...
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Categorization studies with a procedure similar to Shepard et al (1961) and Medin & Schaffer (1978)
I am looking for performance results from categorization studies with discrete stimulus features and reinforcement feedback. I need something like this:
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