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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6517 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1 of 10 02 November 2011 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Seeing Red: Tweak Your Brain With Colors,
from Wired. The research discussed was published in Science magazine. I am going to color my flashcards red. Why the heck not, right? Even if the effect is minute, it can't hurt, and after reading that article it'll work because of the placebo effect, anyway. Good thing Anki allows you to customize the flashcard templates. Hell, maybe I'll even combine it with that stuff about hard-to-read fonts boosting your memory! EDIT: Also note the background color on my avatar is red. YOU'RE WELCOME. Edited by Ari on 02 November 2011 at 8:09pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4844 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 2 of 10 02 November 2011 at 9:02pm | IP Logged | ||
Does that mean your face is more likely to enter our long term memory? =O To be honest, we'll never forget the hat! =) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hideout Newbie United States Joined 4728 days ago 20 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Japanese, French | Message 3 of 10 02 November 2011 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting. Might have to re-write my mandarin flashcards in red.
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| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6194 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 4 of 10 02 November 2011 at 10:17pm | IP Logged | ||
English is one of my weak languages, but I have noticed that memorizing English texts is easier that memorizing texts in my native language. So I think it's true that hard-to- read information is better retained because it forces you to read carefully. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6638 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 10 03 November 2011 at 1:37am | IP Logged | ||
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I write my morphological tables on thick green paper, but that's because they otherwise would drown in the floods of white wordlists and text copies. I have never had any feeling that it was easier to remember things that were difficult to read because of the background color or the print quality and I seriously doubt that the theory is true - I have always preferred easily readable materials. However it might be correct that markers in red draws the attention to them - which may be a good thing as long as the text itself remains easily readable. Edited by Iversen on 03 November 2011 at 1:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| HMS Senior Member England Joined 5042 days ago 143 posts - 256 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 10 03 November 2011 at 3:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting. My wife is dyslexic and needs to have pale blue paper in the printer. I find it more aesthetically pleasing also.
Could it be that colour is like noise and can be measured on a scale, white being quite high on that? A sort of mental interference / static? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5946 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 7 of 10 03 November 2011 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
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It's interesting that the article doesn't mention the evolution of colour vision.
According to a documentary I saw recently on TV, the evolution of colour vision is fairly clear from the eyes of various creatures The reason this is important, is that the conclusion drawn from the evidence is that animals evolved to see black-and-white first, then red later. The green and blue dectectors in the eye are very recent in evolutionary terms. But more than that, they claimed that studies have shown that everyone in the world makes the same distinction between "red" and "not red" (it's hardwired), but the distinction between greens and blues varies from people to people (it's cultural). While I appreciate that any findings have to be backed up with statistics, in this case what we know about the eye tells us we've got no reason to compare blue with red, and if you do (which they do), there's no need for subjective explanations -- the genetic reasons are good enough. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| HMS Senior Member England Joined 5042 days ago 143 posts - 256 votes Speaks: English* | Message 8 of 10 03 November 2011 at 4:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Or even the evolution of vision as a whole. I have 3 bearded dragons. My understanding is that their vision is also limited to red / not red. My experience also shows me that motion is needed for them to even detect this.
Anyway...I digressed. Apologies! Edit: Best explanation I saw for this was at a wildlife zoo-type place in the UK. They had a set of binoculars you could look through to see items of food the way certain animals would see them. It was explained it all boiled down to distinguishing fruits and whether they were ripe to be eaten! Edited by HMS on 03 November 2011 at 4:23am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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