IBCN   20355
INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA CELULAR Y NEUROCIENCIA "PROFESOR EDUARDO DE ROBERTIS"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Memory in elementary school children is improved by an unrelated novel experience.
Autor/es:
BALLARINI, FABRICIO; MARTÍNEZ, MARÍA C.; DIAZ PEREZ, M; MONCADA, DIEGO; VIOLA, HAYDÉE
Lugar:
Barcelona
Reunión:
Conferencia; 8th FENS forum 2012; 2012
Resumen:
The use of different strategies to improve the students´ performance is of major importance in education. Previous evidence shows improving effect of novelty on long-term memory (LTM) formation in lab experiments; we studied if a novel experience exerts a similar effect on learning and memory on a reading activity in the classroom. Memory improvements were observed in those groups of students who had experienced a novel science lesson 1 hour before or after the story telling, but not 4 hours before or after. This promoting effect on LTM was also reproduced using a music lesson one hour after the story and on visual graphical learning one hour before a novel science lesson. A familiar lesson failed to enhance memory, there were no differences between control and experimental groups. Taken as a whole, our results demonstrate the positive effect of novel lessons on LTM formation in schoolchildren. Our findings suggests that this phenomenon might be applied in the classroom as a novel approach to tackle retention of difficult curricular contents.