Oh, I’ve thought a lot about something similar that I call “background processing”—I think it happens during sleep, but also when awake. I think for me it works better when something is salient to my mind / my mind cares about it. According to this theory, if I was being forced to learn music theory but really wanted to think about video games, I’d get less new ideas about music theory from background processing, and maybe it’d be less entered into my long term memory from sleep.
I’m not sure how this effects more ‘automatic’ (‘muscle memory’) things (like playing the piano correctly in response to reading sheet music).
I’m unsure if you [practice piano] in the morning, you’ll need to remind yourself about the experience before you fall asleep, also implying that you can only really consolidate 1 thing a day
I’m not sure about this either. It could also be formulated as there being some set amount of consolidation you do each night, and you can divide them between topics, but it’s theoretically (disregarding other factors like motivation; not practical advice) most efficient if you do one area per day (because of stuff in the same topic having more potential to relate to each other and be efficiently compressed or generalized from or something. Alternatively, studying multiple different areas in a day could lead to creative generalization between them).
Oh, I’ve thought a lot about something similar that I call “background processing”—I think it happens during sleep, but also when awake. I think for me it works better when something is salient to my mind / my mind cares about it. According to this theory, if I was being forced to learn music theory but really wanted to think about video games, I’d get less new ideas about music theory from background processing, and maybe it’d be less entered into my long term memory from sleep.
I’m not sure how this effects more ‘automatic’ (‘muscle memory’) things (like playing the piano correctly in response to reading sheet music).
I’m not sure about this either. It could also be formulated as there being some set amount of consolidation you do each night, and you can divide them between topics, but it’s theoretically (disregarding other factors like motivation; not practical advice) most efficient if you do one area per day (because of stuff in the same topic having more potential to relate to each other and be efficiently compressed or generalized from or something. Alternatively, studying multiple different areas in a day could lead to creative generalization between them).