"Memories occur when specific groups of neurons are reactivated. Synaptic plasticity driven by repeated experience can change the connection strengths between neurons."

(Queensland Brain Institute, para. 6)

Memory

Research

Memory​

• VR Technology Could Reveal How the Brain Forms Memories in the Real World (MacPherson, 2022)

• ‘Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology’: An Interview with Michelle D. Miller (Lang, J., 2021)

• You Must Remember This (Miller, M., 2021)

• The Effect of Cognitive Load on the Retrieval of Long-Term Memory: An fMRI Study (Sisakhtiet al., 2021)

• Human Memory: How We Make, Remember, and Forget Memories (Greshko, 2019)

• ​Educational App-Development Needs to be Informed by the Cognitive Neurosciences of Learning & Memory (Reber & Rothen, 2018)

• Making Memories (Habler, 2018)

• The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory (Tyng et al., 2017)

• Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education (Cowan, 2014)

• How Memory Works (Harvard University)

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Memory: Spaced Practice

• How to Use Spaced Practice to Boost Learning (Carpenter & Agarwal, 2020)

• Enhancing human learning via spaced repetition optimization (Tabibian et al. 2019)

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Memory: Retrieval

• 7 Ways to Get Retrieval Practice Right (Boryga, 2022)

• How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve Learning (Agarwal et al., 2020)

• Retrieval Practice and Transfer of Learning: Fostering Students’ Application of Knowledge (Pan & Agarwal, 2020)

Resources

• How are Memories Formed, Queensland Brain Institute

• Learning and Memory, UC Davis Center for Neuroscience

• Memory, Attention, and Distraction, Genetic Science Learning Center

• RetrievalPractice.org

• Types of Memory, University of Utah

• Learning & Memory, Memory Key Questions, Queensland Brain Institute

Video

• Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning, Dr. Pooja K. Agarwal, Keynote 2022 (43:22)

• Brain and Memory Extended, BrainFacts.org (50:17)

"Attention and memory cannot operate without each other."

(Chun & Turke-Brown, 2007, p. 177)

Attention

Research

• Working Memory and Attention – A Conceptual Analysis and Review (Oberaur, 2019)

• ​Science of Taming the Wandering Mind (Jha, 2017)

• How the Brain Pays Attention (Trafton, 2014)

Resources

• Attention Matters, Dr. Michelle Miller, Northern Arizona University

• Blog, Dr. Michelle Miller

• DNA Learning Center: Related to Memory

• Paying Attention, University of Southern Maine

Videos

• Attention & Memory: Dr. Eric Kandel (0:29)

• Reducing and Redirecting Mind-Wandering In The Classroom: Dr. Karl Szpunar, 
  University of Illinois at Chicago (6:04)

"Memory plays a crucial role in teaching and learning." 

(Harvard University, para. 7)