Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory

[DEAD7]

The findings are based on a study of 95 students (75 of whom returned for a second session) at the University of Waterloo. The students were tested on their ability to recall written information inputted in four different ways -- reading silently, hearing someone else read, listening to a recording of oneself reading, and reading aloud in real time. They were tested on recollection of short, four-to-six letter words on a list of 160 terms. The results show that reading information aloud to oneself led to the best recall.
Oral production is effective because it has two distinctive components, a motor or speech act and a personal auditory input, the researchers explain. "[The] results suggest that production is memorable in part because it includes a distinctive, self-referential component. This may well underlie why rehearsal is so valuable in learning and remembering," the study concludes. "We do it ourselves, and we do it in our own voice. When it comes time to recover the information, we can use this distinctive component to help us to remember."

You remember more of what you read out loud

 

[Buck Seventy]

That's interesting. Reading out loud should be able help middle age people who are showing signs of short term memory loss.

 

[Marzupial]

Iam mad I discovered this late and after college

Also it makes libraries kinda useless

But yep, defenetly increases retention, also having your whole body extremely relaxed helps a lot too

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I'm been teaching this to middle school and high school students since 20 years ago. I thought it was obvious. The more inputs your brain gets, the better.

If you hear something, that's only one input.

If you see something, that's only one input.

If you see something and read it, that's 3 inputs - your sight, your speech facilities to form the words, then you hear your own speech.

If you see something and copy it down, and then read it to yourself out loud, that could be considered 5 inputs - your sight, motor facilities to form the writing, sight again seeing it differently in your own writing, speech to form the words out loud, and hearing your own speech.


I used to take notes all the time, go back and read them a couple times, read them out loud once, and then I'd never have to actually use the notes when I needed them cause all that shyt already memorized.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

 

[Pressure]

Works well with people's names too. It's good to use their name when speaking to them. Helps assigning the name with the person.