Taking a 'short break' may be useful to learn new skills
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It is considered important to practice and practice repeatedly when learning new skills. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have published findings that 'taking a short break while acquiring skills' plays an important role in acquiring such new skills.
A Rapid Form of Offline Consolidation in Skill Learning: Current Biology
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Take some short breaks | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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Dr. Leonardo G. Cohen, a senior researcher at NIH, who studies neurological diseases and strokes, says, 'A lot of people think that it is important to practice many times in order to acquire new skills. However, we have found that 'taking frequent breaks quickly' is as important as practice. It is widely known that taking a good night's sleep to help establish the memory, but this time the discovery is not a long rest like sleep, but a short break helps to establish the skill Suggesting that
The study was led by Dr. Marlene Bönstrup, a Ph.D. researcher at Cohen's lab. Initially, Bönstrup also thought that it would be helpful to learn new skills by having a good night's sleep while repeating proper exercises. However, when the experiment was conducted while measuring the subject's EEG at the NIH clinical center, this idea seems to have become suspicious.
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Bönstrup used a series of numbers displayed on a computer screen as a “ Mencephalogram scan” to capture the changes in the magnetic field produced by the electrical activity of the brain for 27 right-handed and healthy subjects. I did the task of typing with the opposite left hand. After running the task for 10 seconds, he performed a total of 35 times a routine of putting a 10-second break.
In the first few trials, the participants improved the speed of entering numbers dramatically, and it seems that the speeding up of participants' input speed leveled off after about 11 trials. So far, the results were as originally expected, but Bönstrup, who was observing the subject's brainwaves, noticed an interesting phenomenon that he did not expect.
'I noticed that the changes in the subject's brainwaves changed more during the break than during the typing session,' said Bönstrup. From this observation, Mr. Bönstrup seems to have arrived at the idea that what is actually being learned about skills in the subject's brain is not during the skill execution but during the break.
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Re-analysing the collected data, Bönstrup and colleagues found that the subjects' skills did not improve during typing, but apparently improved during the break. The research team also collected the same subjects the day after the experiment and asked them to perform the task again. Then, despite going through the nighttime sleep that is generally considered to help the task settle, the skill improvement obtained by the nighttime sleep is the skill improvement obtained during the break between the tasks It turned out that it was not equal to the degree.
Also, when you look at the EEG, you can see an activity pattern that suggests that the subject's brain is strengthening and fixing memory during the break. Specifically, it is said that changes in the brain wave called beta waves , which are said to be involved in the formation of memory, occurred along a neural network connecting the frontal and parietal lobes in the right hemisphere of the brain. The site is known to help control the movement of the body, and the beta wave change was the only EEG pattern that correlated with improved performance.
'This result is important to have an appropriate break when learning new skills such as rehabilitation treatment for stroke patients to regain their motor function and playing the piano.' 'I suggest that it might be.'
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