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user-inactivated  ·  3798 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Non fiction recommendations

Well, sure. Compartmentalized recall. It goes without saying that I enjoy them, it's free knowledge. I don't understand why the source of a book has to do with your enjoyment of it, but that seems to be a pretty common phenomenon with school books.





Kaius  ·  3763 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Old post but can you tell me more aboit this compartmentalized recall? Google is not finding any concrete articles on it.

user-inactivated  ·  3763 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not aware that it's a term per se. I meant it literally.

I've read around 45 books so far this summer and I couldn't sit here and name them all but if you named the title of one I could give you the plot, the characters or events, what I thought about it, etc. To me that counts as retention, because your memory is rarely going to be tested in the former fashion.

Kaius  ·  3762 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right that makes sense, associative memory.