Subject: Re: Reading versus books on tape From: David Anderson <dvanderson@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:35:37 -0600------=_Part_39062_26602695.1152200137286 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Another anecdotal tid-bit: I listen to many books on tape while commuting, including history and/or scientific books. I find my retention is a little poorer and that my understanding isn't as deep sometimes (a result of not being able to reread and ponder a passage). However, I am much more likely to have portions memorized. I have found that I am able to recite random selections after listening only a few times. David On 7/6/06, Toth Laszlo <tothl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, tony stockman wrote: > > > anecdotally I believe for myself at any rate, as a blind person and > > having used braille since primary school, braille reading is more > > effective for learning than listening to tape. > > I think that quite many people (including me) performs a kind of visual > learning. For example, I can recall even after years how a certain piece > of information was positioned on the page of the book. Because of this, I > can hardly imagine how I could learn anything by listening to a tape (I > have never tried it, though). Sorry, this is only "anecdotal", but I hope > somebody here can name some real study on this. > > Laszlo Toth > Hungarian Academy of Sciences * > Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins > e-mail: tothl@xxxxxxxx * when you stop trying" > http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl * > > ------=_Part_39062_26602695.1152200137286 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Another anecdotal tid-bit: I listen to many books on tape while commuting, including history and/or scientific books. I find my retention is a little poorer and that my understanding isn't as deep sometimes (a result of not being able to reread and ponder a passage). However, I am much more likely to have portions memorized. I have found that I am able to recite random selections after listening only a few times. <br><br>David<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Toth Laszlo</b> <<a href="mailto:tothl@xxxxxxxx">tothl@xxxxxxxx</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, tony stockman wrote:<br><br>> anecdotally I believe for myself at any rate, as a blind person and<br>> having used braille since primary school, braille reading is more<br>> effective for learning than listening to tape. <br><br>I think that quite many people (including me) performs a kind of visual<br>learning. For example, I can recall even after years how a certain piece<br>of information was positioned on the page of the book. Because of this, I <br>can hardly imagine how I could learn anything by listening to a tape (I<br>have never tried it, though). Sorry, this is only "anecdotal", but I hope<br>somebody here can name some real study on this.<br><br> Laszlo Toth<br> Hungarian Academy of Sciences *<br> Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins<br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:tothl@xxxxxxxx">tothl@xxxxxxxx </a> * when you stop trying"<br> <a href="http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl">http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl</a> *<br><br></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_39062_26602695.1152200137286--