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Re:Reading Information Aloud to Yourself Improves Memory: Study by miranda_rights on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:41PM (#15884333)
> The study tested four methods for learning written information, including reading silently, hearing someone else read, listening to a recording of oneself reading, and reading aloud in real time.

I wish they had also tested reading silently "aloud", since it's not clear if it's more the additional effort or actually hearing yourself that makes the difference. Also, if they tested " listening to a recording of oneself reading", wouldn't that have involved the subject to read the text aloud initially? I must just misunderstand the article.

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Re:Reading Information Aloud to Yourself Improves Memory: Study by SOLAR_FIELDS on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:15AM (#15884431)
It would be interesting to compare to writing down something as well. My anecdotal observation (and I believe there is some scientific literature to support this as well) from college lectures is that I retained more from writing pieces of the lecture down, even if I never reviewed my handwritten notes afterward.
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Re:Reading Information Aloud to Yourself Improves Memory: Study by hrmn on Saturday December 09, 2017 @06:47AM (#15885402)
In addition to being able to memorise things better when reading them out loud, I also agree with your observation. I have the same memories about what I did at university: writing down the parts of the lecture that I needed to learn for a test helped me a lot. It took more time than just reading over the stuff, but it was very effective for me.
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