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When you learn something new, you collect information and make sense of it afterward. If you know something related, your brain will make use of existing information to speed up the process.
Гельмут Д. Сакс говорит об этом так: «Изучая, сохраняя и строя новое на базе старого, мы создаем обширную сеть взаимосвязанной информации. Чем больше мы знаем, чем больше информации (крючков) у нас есть, чтобы связать новую информацию, тем легче нам формировать долговременную память.»
This can be called assimilation: new stuff is learned in a way to make use of existing stuff. Existing neural pathways are used. This is the case when you learn the first words of a new language: you translate and remember.
Then there’s the mode of accommodation, where we start to adapt and change the way we think to better understand the object of our interest. That’s when you can let go of your first language to understand the new one. However, It can be a more difficult and painful process on account of its difficulty to accept and rethink your pre-existent beliefs.
See more about Assimilation and Accommodation
Reference:
- Piaget’s developmental theory
- Why Categories for Your Note Archive are a Bad Idea • Zettelkasten Method Organic Growth & Brain–Zettelkasten-Fit
- Как делать полезные заметки. Зонке Аренс
- « Our brains work not that differently in terms of interconnectedness. Psychologists used to think of the brain as a limited storage space that slowly fills up and makes it more difficult to learn late in life. But we know today that the more connected information we already have, the easier it is to learn, because new information can dock to that information. Yes, our ability to learn isolated facts is indeed limited and probably decreases with age. But if facts are not kept isolated nor learned in an isolated fashion, but hang together in a network of ideas, or “latticework of mental models” (Munger, 1994), it becomes easier to make sense of new information. That makes it easier not only to learn and remember, but also to retrieve the information later in the moment and context it is needed. »