The fast and the curious?
If you are a big fan of watching videos on the Internet, such as via Tiktok, YouTube or Masterclass, you are likely to get used to listening to people talking to Looney Tunes Speed.
Speed observation has become an increasingly common way of consuming content, as it allows the assimilation of information in half the time or longer.
But have you ever asked you about the effect on the brain? An international team of researchers set out to determine this.
The group examined 24 studies that generally consisted of placing the participants in two groups, one in which they listened to a video at normal speed and another in which the same video was presented at 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x and 2.5x of normal speed.
Then the two groups were asked to evaluate how good they kept the content of the video.
Although there was no difference at 1.5X, memory withholding was successful at 2x and higher.
“Incoming information is temporarily stored in a memory system called working memory,” Marcus Pearce wrote, which is investigating cognitive science at the Queen Mary University in London, wrote in the study conversation this week.
“This allows transforming, combining and manipulating pieces of information in a form prepared for long -term transfer to memory.”
Pearce states that working memory can only process some information at the same time, too much at once can cause cognitive overload and loss of information.
Scientific takeaway is to keep at the speed of 1.25x or 1.5x, especially for complex and little -known content.
The findings were recently published in the educational journal Psychology Review.
It is tempting to think that the way of consuming content today only affects young and developing minds, but this research suggests otherwise.
Adults 61 to 94 years old were more affected by the faster speeds than 18 to 36 years.
A 2023 study found that the adults seniors see a 31 % fall of comprehension at only 1.5x of speed, compared to younger peers who keep more than 90 % of comprehension at 2x.
What is unclear, at the moment, is whether the problem is age or practice, that is, younger adults are better to consume content at faster speeds because their minds are more flexible or is simply because they have trained the brain doing -more often?
If this is the latter, can adults get better?
The limited research we have indicates that, unfortunately, the answer is not so much.
Younger brains are simply more adaptable, although studies suggest that older adults can train to improve, even if they often take longer and probably reach a plateau sooner.
If adults want to refund their brain to see the speed, a deliberate speed training program, retention checks and cognitive increase, it is the most promising route.
The good news is that experts say consuming content at normal speed really makes it more enjoyable for everyone.
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