Complex Event Analysis - Report

Key Focus

It would seem that neurological damage may render the brain especially vulnerable to that interference after learning a new memory, which is why the period of rest proved to be particularly potent for stroke survivors and people with Alzheimer's disease.
Other psychologists are excited about the research

Crucially, this advantage lingers a week after the original learning task, and it seems to benefit young and old people alike. And besides the stroke survivors, they have also found similar benefits for people in the earlier, milder stages of Alzheimer's disease.
Our memory for new information is especially fragile just after it has been encoded

Momentum supporting factors

(alzheimer, learning)

Challenge supporting factors

(recall, strikingly)

Work-in-progress supporting factors

(recall, student)

(recall, six-minute)

(recall, sala)

(recall, recharge)

(nocturnal, recall)

(michaela_dewer, recall)

(alzheimer, learning)

(alzheimer, university)

(alzheimer, sit)

(alzheimer, recall)

Complex Event Time Series Summary - REPORT

Time Period	Challenge	Momentum	WIP
Report	7.41	7.41	85.19

High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

High Level Abstraction (HLA)	Report
(1) (alzheimer,learning)	100.00
(2) (recall,student)	94.12
(3) (recall,strikingly)	88.24
(4) (recall,six-minute)	82.35
(5) (recall,sala)	76.47
(6) (recall,recharge)	70.59
(7) (nocturnal,recall)	64.71
(8) (michaela_dewer,recall)	58.82
(9) (alzheimer,university)	41.18
(10) (alzheimer,sit)	35.29
(11) (alzheimer,recall)	29.41
(12) (alzheimer,phones)	23.53
(13) (alzheimer,mobile)	17.65
(14) (alzheimer,milder)	11.76
(15) (alzheimer,memorise)	5.88

Complex Event Analysis - REPORT

Supporting narratives:

momentum (Read more)

It would seem that neurological damage may render the brain especially vulnerable to that interference after learning a new memory, which is why the period of rest proved to be particularly potent for stroke survivors and people with Alzheimer's disease.
Other psychologists are excited about the research
High Level Abstractions:

(alzheimer,learning)

challenge (Read more)

Following a short study period, half the group were immediately given a second list to learn - while the rest were given a six-minute break before continuing.
When tested one-and-a-half-hours later, the two groups showed strikingly different patterns of recall. The participants given the break remembered nearly 50 percent of their list, compared to an average of 28 percent for the group who had been given no time to recharge their mental batteries
High Level Abstractions:

(recall,strikingly)

WIP (Read more)

Without the chance to rest, they could recall just 7 percent of the facts in the story; with the rest, this jumped to 79 percent - an astronomical 11-fold increase in the information they retained.
Della Sala and Cowan's former student, Michaela Dewer at Heriot-Watt University, has now led several follow-up studies, replicating the finding in many different contexts
High Level Abstractions:

(recall,student)
(recall,sala)
(michaela_dewer,recall)

WIP (Read more)

Following a short study period, half the group were immediately given a second list to learn - while the rest were given a six-minute break before continuing.
When tested one-and-a-half-hours later, the two groups showed strikingly different patterns of recall
High Level Abstractions:

(recall,six-minute)

WIP (Read more)

The participants given the break remembered nearly 50 percent of their list, compared to an average of 28 percent for the group who had been given no time to recharge their mental batteries.
High Level Abstractions:

(recall,recharge)

WIP (Read more)

This was once thought to happen primarily during sleep, with heightened communication between the hippocampus - where memories are first formed - and the cortex, a process that may build and strengthen the new neural connections that are necessary for later recall.
The brain might use downtime to cement what it has recently learnt.
This heightened nocturnal activity may be the reason that we often learn things better just before bed.
High Level Abstractions:

(nocturnal,recall)

WIP (Read more)

Crucially, this advantage lingers a week after the original learning task, and it seems to benefit young and old people alike. And besides the stroke survivors, they have also found similar benefits for people in the earlier, milder stages of Alzheimer's disease.
Our memory for new information is especially fragile just after it has been encoded
High Level Abstractions:

(alzheimer,milder)
(alzheimer,learning)

WIP (Read more)

"The effect is quite consistent across studies now in a range of experiments and memory tasks," says Aidan Horner at the University of York.
High Level Abstractions:

(alzheimer,university)

WIP (Read more)

And besides the stroke survivors, they have also found similar benefits for people in the earlier, milder stages of Alzheimer's disease.
Our memory for new information is especially fragile just after it has been encoded.
In each case, the researchers simply asked the participants to sit in a dim, quiet room, without their mobile phones or similar distractions.
High Level Abstractions:

(alzheimer,mobile)
(alzheimer,phones)
(alzheimer,sit)

WIP (Read more)

An Effortless Way to Improve Your Memory
A surprisingly potent technique can boost your short and long-term recall - and it appears to help everyone from students to Alzheimer's patients.
BBC Future
David Robson
When trying to memorise new material, it's easy to assume that the more work you put in, the better you will perform
High Level Abstractions:

(alzheimer,recall)

WIP (Read more)

An Effortless Way to Improve Your Memory
A surprisingly potent technique can boost your short and long-term recall - and it appears to help everyone from students to Alzheimer's patients.
BBC Future
David Robson
When trying to memorise new material, it's easy to assume that the more work you put in, the better you will perform.
High Level Abstractions:

(alzheimer,memorise)

Target rule match count: 15.0 Challenge: 0.04 Momentum: 0.04 WIP: 0.43