And how do you study? In silence or out loud? If you are from the latter and you have never understood why you need to read this in order to learn the lesson better, there is a reason.
At least, an investigation by the University of Waterloo indicates that those who read aloud help their brain better assimilate the information they are studying.
Known as “production effect”, that indicates that the double action of speaking and listening at the same time has a more than beneficial effect on our memory: “When we add an active element to our words, these words are better differentiated within our long-term memory, and therefore, we can remember them much better, “says Noah Forrin, co-author of the study.
The research focused on 4 methods of learning written texts, which included: reading silently, listening to someone read, listening to a recording of their own reading and reading aloud.
Tests were carried out with 95 people and it was this last test that showed the best results when it came to remembering what was read (at least 77% of the students managed to remember what they learned in this way better than with the other methods) .
This study shows, therefore, that daily exercise and movement is a way to build a strong memory.
This work complements others carried out by this same team in which they evaluated other types of activities to help retain information in memory, such as writing words or texts by hand or by machine.
