Sleep Makes Relearning Faster and Longer-Lasting
Getting some sleep in between study sessions may make it easier to recall what you studied and relearn what you’ve forgotten, even 6 months later, according to new findings from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
“Our results suggest that interleaving sleep between practice sessions leads to a twofold advantage, reducing the time spent relearning and ensuring a much better long-term retention than practice alone,” explains psychological scientist Stephanie Mazza of the University of Lyon.
“Previous research suggested that sleeping after learning is definitely a good strategy, but now we show that sleeping between two learning sessions greatly improves such a strategy.”
Paper:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/08/16/0956797616659930.abstract
Article:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/sleep-makes-relearning-faster-and-longer-lasting.html
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Short question? Duration of sleep? full 8 hours with REM or a cat nap of 15 to 25 minutes. Have been experimenting with short naps with long hours at work for safer driving and writing better reports.
ReplyDeleteI suppose for everyone is different...Short naps work for me too.
ReplyDeleteMeditation each evening (after the work) is also a good way to learn, like an awaken dream totally controlled, and it certainly helps to live longer.
ReplyDeleteGood programmers use meditation, with down-tempo music and pot to think ahead their source coding, I can tell you that for sure...
Not sure what you're talking about Bertrand Nelson ?!?
ReplyDeleteI could never code or do anything while meditating. Meditation for me calms my mind. All my fusimotors are staying still and all I can hear is my blood cargo inside my veins.
Corina Marinescu you speak of meditation for the relaxation, I speak of meditation for in-depth thinking... And of course you can't do anything or move during the process...
ReplyDeleteI had included some temporal datas in my commentary. After the work, back home, the meditation and an in-deep thinking about the applications in construction help a lot to think ahead to the source coding to do the next day.
When I was a freelance developer, thus the sole developer, for the complex applications devoted to the study of the vestibular system using the EEG: about 100.000 lines of code, only for the Cartography of maps of currents displayed on a 3D model of the skull, using a mathematical interpolation (spherical splines) to calculate the whole field from the measurements acquired at the discrete locations of the electrodes. Add the same number of lines for the other apps...
And they were research applications, constantly under construction, subject at any time during the experiments to be asked for an instant modification of parameters or of the source (need to have key points easily accessible in the source for a rapid re-compilation).
Why do I detail all of this?
As you know what is the coding process, you know that usually the developers write the code that has been analyzed and segmented before, often by somebody else. In my example, I was alone and the unique computer specialist of the crew, only a simple description of the needs was given to me, thus the analysis has to be done on a daily routine. And certainly you can't code during meditation and I strongly recommend to do not code while smoking pot or taking Molly or whatever, in the instant you think you're doing a great job but the next day when you put an eye on the code you realize that it is flawed and badly written...
Of course, the meditation for coding is a true meditation, you need to access to all the resources of your mind and to control them like if you're dreaming but awake, at least this is my technique and other well-known developers have slightly disclosed that they do the same...
Btw, I don't remind that you've ever mentioned before that you are coding yourself, thus you may understand my technical explanations.
Have a great day, I just wake up!