Have you ever felt like the more you practice, the worse it gets? A study performed in 2017 on working memory may hold the answer as to why. For the study, students practiced throwing a ball after following close instructions, after being sorted by high working memory capacity versus low. The students with high working memory saw great improvements with the constant instruction, however the students with lower working memory actually got worse. Noa Kageyama, Ph. D., says "For me, the big takeaway is that individual differences in working memory could potentially have a significant impact on learning. And that this may be why some people seem to respond pretty well to lots of explicit technical instruction, while others get paralyzed and seem to regress instead."
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