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Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE
Professor of Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego
How did you do it?
Philip Oakley
Focused mode Diffuse mode
Focused Mode Diffuse Mode
It takes
time
Weight lifter Sultan Rakhmanov, RIA Novosti
Focusing intently in ONE
session to figure
something out can be the
worst approach possible
Team up
Explain focused versus diffuse mode
Now You Try!
Procrastination
Insular Cortex!
Procrastination
Procrastination – A Habit
• Do NOT focus on finishing a task
• Turn off all distractions
• Set timer for 25 minutes
• Focus
• Reward!
Xie, Lulu, Hongyi Kang, Qiwu Xu, Michael J Chen, Yonghong Liao, Meenakshisundaram Thiyagarajan, John O’Donnell, et al. "Sleep
Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain." Science 342, no. 6156 (2013): 373-77.
Sleep
Yang, G, et al. "Sleep promotes branch-specific formation of dendritic
spines after learning." Science 344, 6188 (2014): 1173-1178.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Working memory
Focused mode
Focused mode Diffuse mode
Is Background Music
Okay?
Café Mélange, a coffeehouse in Vienna, by Sandstein.
It’s good to change location when studying
Working memory
Long term
memory
Practice Makes Permanent
Qin, S., S. Cho, T. Chen, M. Rosenberg-Lee, D. C. Geary, and V. Menon.
"Hippocampal-Neocortical Functional Reorganization Underlies
Children's Cognitive Development." Nat Neurosci (Aug 17 2014).
Working
memory and
chunking
Raw information Information is chunked
and understood
Focused thinking
Diffuse thinking
Creative!
Poor memory
“Slow” thinker
Maryam Mirzakhani
Illusions of competence in learning
Flashcards are your friend.
Tests are the best!
Hard start, jump to easy
Recall
Passion