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James_Miller comments on Parenting Technique: Increase Your Child’s Working Memory - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: James_Miller 29 June 2015 07:51PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 29 June 2015 08:46:42PM 0 points [-]

I don't remember exactly when he started, but I know we were doing memory training when he was 6. The first thing we did was him repeating back a numerical sequence he heard from me.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 29 June 2015 09:01:22PM 1 point [-]

I started doing comparable games (repeat long words, non-sense words and sentences) when they were quite young (basically growing out of talking with them when they started learning to talk). With the older trying too. But these games only confirm the same thing: Repeating a sequence by rote is hard (for them). Repeating whole sentences is much easier - but it likely happens that only the meaning is transported not the literal form. Songs are even more easy - but I'd guess that that's due to other types of memory (rhythm?) cueing in.

Comment author: Romashka 02 July 2015 12:43:59PM 0 points [-]

Re: nonsense words - I use it to teach English to my 4-year old when we go outside. He sees a car - I tell him that it's an 'elephant's car', and say 'elephant' in English - he returns 'elephant-mobile':)