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S5 E08: A Neuroscientist’s Take on Cohort Learning

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Do Mentalizing and Storytelling Improve Memory and Retention?

There's a lot of evidence with storytelling where, for example, if you had people memorize a list of words versus telling it through a story. There's definitely been a link between humor as well so not just in cohort learning but in any kind of learning. I want to go back to the term mentalizing again because I think that this is a really good one even deconstruct more. So do we know that improves the memory and the retention then I mean it seems logical that that's happened but have we proven that? Well first off it has to be good humor Dana so I'm out of here dad jokes don't apply they're very memorable.

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