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Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task
The influence of a given event on long-term memory formation of another one has been a relevant topic of study in the neuroscience field in recent years. Students at school learn contents which are usually tested in exam format. However, exam elevates the arousal state of the students acting as a mi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30631480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41539-018-0036-7 |
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author | Lopes da Cunha, P. Ramirez Butavand, D. Chisari, L. B. Ballarini, F. Viola, H. |
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description | The influence of a given event on long-term memory formation of another one has been a relevant topic of study in the neuroscience field in recent years. Students at school learn contents which are usually tested in exam format. However, exam elevates the arousal state of the students acting as a mild stressor that could influence another memory formation ongoing process. Thus, in this study we examine in high school students the effect of exams on long-term retention of unrelated information, learned at different times before or after the exams. Our results show that exams are not innocuous and that they could improve or reduce the retention of temporarily associated content. These effects did not show gender differences. Our findings should alert teachers about the side effects of exams on the learning of other content within the same school day. |
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spelling | pubmed-62202082019-01-10 Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task Lopes da Cunha, P. Ramirez Butavand, D. Chisari, L. B. Ballarini, F. Viola, H. NPJ Sci Learn Brief Communication The influence of a given event on long-term memory formation of another one has been a relevant topic of study in the neuroscience field in recent years. Students at school learn contents which are usually tested in exam format. However, exam elevates the arousal state of the students acting as a mild stressor that could influence another memory formation ongoing process. Thus, in this study we examine in high school students the effect of exams on long-term retention of unrelated information, learned at different times before or after the exams. Our results show that exams are not innocuous and that they could improve or reduce the retention of temporarily associated content. These effects did not show gender differences. Our findings should alert teachers about the side effects of exams on the learning of other content within the same school day. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6220208/ /pubmed/30631480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41539-018-0036-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Lopes da Cunha, P. Ramirez Butavand, D. Chisari, L. B. Ballarini, F. Viola, H. Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task |
title | Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task |
title_full | Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task |
title_fullStr | Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task |
title_full_unstemmed | Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task |
title_short | Exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task |
title_sort | exams at classroom have bidirectional effects on the long-term memory of an unrelated graphical task |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30631480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41539-018-0036-7 |
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