They asked people to practice a sequence of keys, G, D, F, E, G, G, D, F, E, G, G, D, F, E, G. I'm not a musician, but I think I'll get this correct. So let's use the keys on a piano example. The study involved having people learn sequences of numbers or keys on a piano. Now, I'm not talking about going to sleep while learning. What I'm about to describe are new data that say that you actually should be injecting rest within the learning episode. It's been shown in scientific studies that if you take a 20-minute shallow nap or you simply do nothing after a period of learning, that it enhances the rates of learning and the depth of learning, your ability to learn and remember that information. In earlier episodes, I've discussed how when you're trying to learn something, it's beneficial. I want to be really clear what I'm referring to here. It also turns out that taking rest within the learning episode is very important. The bottom line is, you need to generate many, many repetitions of something that you're trying to learn, and the errors that you generate are also very important for learning. You've heard of lots of different strategies for learning faster, 80-20 rule and all that. Now, previously, I've talked about how, in the attempt to learn skills, the vital thing to do is to get lots of repetitions. It's a peer-reviewed paper from a really excellent group, looking at skill learning. This is a paper that was published in Cell Reports, an excellent journal. There's a paper that was published recently. I'll even tell you what type of music to listen to, and if you listen to me, you can leverage that in order to learn faster.īefore we begin talking about the science of hearing and balance, and tools that leverage hearing and balance for learning faster, I want to provide some information about another way to learn much faster. You're going to learn a lot of neuroscience. You're going to learn a lot about how your biology, and brain, and ears and the so-called inner ear that's associated with balance, you're going to learn a lot about how all those work. It's a fascinating aspect to your biology. Chances are, your ears are making noises right now, but you can't perceive them, and yet those can have an influence on other people and animals in your environment. We're also going to talk about this, what seems like kind of a weird fact, which is that 70% of people, all people, make what are called "otoacoustic emissions." Their ears actually make noises. We're going to talk about some treatments that can work in some circumstances and some of the more recent emerging treatments that I think many people aren't aware of. We're going to talk about tinnitus, which is this ringing of the ears that, unfortunately for people that suffer from it, they really suffer. We're also going to talk about ways in which the auditory and balance systems suffer. This is one area of science where we understand a lot about the cells and the mechanisms in the ear and in the brain and so forth, so we're going to talk about that a little bit and then we're going to get directly into protocols, meaning tools. We're going to talk about tools for all of that. The auditory system, meaning the hearing system, and your balance system, which is called the "vestibular system, interact with all the other systems of the brain and body, and used properly can allow you to learn information more quickly, remember that information longer and with more ease, and you can also improve the way you can hear you can improve your balance. Today, we're going to talk all about hearing and balance and how you can use your ability to hear specific things and your balance system in order to learn anything faster. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
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