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Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE

Professor of Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego

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How did you do it?

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Philip Oakley

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Focused mode Diffuse mode

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Focused Mode Diffuse Mode

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It takes

time

Weight lifter Sultan Rakhmanov, RIA Novosti

Focusing intently in ONE

session to figure

something out can be the

worst approach possible

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Team up

Explain focused versus diffuse mode

Now You Try!

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Procrastination

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Insular Cortex!

Procrastination

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Procrastination – A Habit

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• Do NOT focus on finishing a task

• Turn off all distractions

• Set timer for 25 minutes

• Focus

• Reward!

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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

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Yang, G, et al. "Sleep promotes branch-specific formation of dendritic

spines after learning." Science 344, 6188 (2014): 1173-1178.

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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Working memory

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Focused mode

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Focused mode Diffuse mode

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Is Background Music

Okay?

Café Mélange, a coffeehouse in Vienna, by Sandstein.

It’s good to change location when studying

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Working memory

Long term

memory

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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).

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Working

memory and

chunking

Raw information Information is chunked

and understood

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Focused thinking

Diffuse thinking

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Creative!

Poor memory

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“Slow” thinker

Maryam Mirzakhani

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Illusions of competence in learning

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Flashcards are your friend.

Tests are the best!

Hard start, jump to easy

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Recall

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Passion

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