Optimal Protocols for Studying & Learning

5478.358 - 5503.467 Andrew Huberman

So emotion matters, so much so that in a beautiful review about learning and memory from the great James McGaugh, one of the luminaries in modern neuroscience and psychology of memory, He talked about a medieval practice, this is pretty wild, whereby people and kids, kids are people of course, but adults and kids were taught information and then thrown, literally thrown into cold water. Why?