A recent study has pointed out that active participation in learning helps boost memory.
The study confirmed that having some authority over how one takes in new information significantly enhances one's ability to remember it.
"Having active control over a learning situation is very powerful and we're beginning to understand why," said University of Illinois psychology and Beckman Institute professor Neal Cohen, who led the study with postdoctoral researcher Joel Voss.
"Whole swaths of the brain not only turn on, but also get functionally connected when you're actively exploring the world," added Cohen.
The study focused on activity in several brain regions, including the hippocampus, located in the brain's medial temporal lobes, near the ears.
To better understand how these brain regions influence active versus passive learning, Voss designed an experiment that required participants to memorize an array of objects and their exact locations in a grid on a computer monitor.
A gray screen with a window in it revealed only one object at a time. The 'active' study subjects used a computer mouse to guide the window to view the objects.
"They could inspect whatever they wanted, however they wanted, in whatever order for however much time they wanted, and they were just told to memorize everything on the screen," Voss said.
Source:MedIndia
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