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Charan Ranganath

What Charan Ranganath thinks about education

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Professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Dynamic Memory Lab, and author of Why We Remember.

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  1. Our readingExpertise is not passively absorbing patterns — it is learning what to look for, which makes becoming an expert a training of attention.

    Their wordsThis fits with some of the studies of chess experts and so forth that it’s not so much that you learn the patterns passively. You learn what to look for. You learn what’s important and what’s not.

    ↗Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingSpacing study out beats massing it: half an hour today and half an hour a week from now is retained longer than two half-hours in one day.

    Their wordsif I just try to do half-an-hour and then later in the day I do half-an-hour, I won’t retain that information as long as if I do half-an-hour today and half-an-hour one week from now. So doing that extra spacing should help me retain the information better.

    ↗Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com 8th of 20 in this recording

  5. Our readingSpaced recall works by stripping a memory of the time and place it happened, which is why the memories you revisit most feel like facts you read rather than things you lived.

    Their wordsSo if you remember this information in different times in different places, it’s more accessible at different times in different places because it’s not overfitted in an AI way of thinking about things. It’s not overfitted to one particular context. But that’s also why the memories that we call upon the most also feel like they’re just things that we read about almost.

    ↗Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording

  7. Our readingYou only retain what you were pushed to your limit on: if learning feels like coasting, you are not learning.

    Their wordsSo that’s why I think this is a thing that I come back to over and over again, is that you will retain information better if you’re constantly pushing yourself to your limit. If you are feeling like you’re coasting, then you’re actually not learning

    ↗Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430youtube.com 10th of 20 in this recording