MemoryLab

Yesterday evening, we enjoyed a wonderful dinner with our science colleagues from the University of Washington. The evening was full of insightful conversations and a great time catching up. Today, we kicked off our experience at #CogSci2024 in Rotterdam. Looking forward to attending a multitude of exciting seminars, engaging in insightful discussions, and sharing our passion for science.

We are thrilled to participate in #CogSci2024 in Rotterdam this week and present our latest research on the intersection of cognitive science and education! Come and find us at the following posters and talk: Modality Matters: Evidence for the Benefits of Speech-Based Adaptive Retrieval Practice in Learners with Dyslexia (talk) - Wilschut, Sense, & van Rijn Prior Knowledge Adaptation Through Item-Removal in Adaptive Learning Increases Short- and Long-Term Learning Benefits (poster) - Krambeer, van der Velde, & van Rijn Data-driven cognitive skills with an application in personalized education (poster) - Taatgen & Blankestijn An Adaptive Learning System for Stepwise Automatisation of Multiplication Facts in Primary Education (poster) - Iancu, Braam, McCabe, Wilschut, van Rijn, & van der Velde Studying with optimized multiple-choice distractors equates recall-based studying (poster) - Braam, Wilschut, van der Velde, & van Rijn

The Academic Startup Competition has recognised Memorylab as one of the Netherlands’ 20 most promising emerging science-based startups. This month marks the end of their six-month enriching program, in which we participated. We want to thank the Academic Startup Competition for all the possibilities, great conversations, and challenges we encountered. We are grateful for the connections we made during this inspiring journey and to the teams that made it all happen! Techleap | Netherlands Academy of Engineering | Universiteit van Nederland | Ministry of Economics | NFU - Nederlandse Federatie van Universitair Medische Centra | Universiteit Twente | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

"Great that there are so many different exercises to practice with." "You can see which exercises you had to think about for a long time." "Useful for knowing what to focus on in the future."   Thanks to the enthusiastic feedback from Noorderpoort students, we can conclude that our test phase for Personalized Practice with Basic Arithmetic Knowledge has been a success. Thank you to all participants for your time, honest feedback, and enthusiasm!   Our research will continue after the summer as a broad pilot with a larger group of teachers and students using the MemoryLab online adaptive learning system. This is an essential step in our mission to support students in strengthening their basic arithmetic knowledge. ---- "Fijn dat er veel verschillende rekensommen zijn." "Je ziet welke som je lang over moest nadenken." "Handig voor waar je op moet letten in de toekomst." Mede dankzij deze enthousiaste feedback van Noorderpoort-studenten kunnen we concluderen dat onze testfase Gepersonaliseerd inoefenen van de basiskennis Rekenen in het online, adaptieve leersysteem van MemoryLab een succes is. Dank aan de deelnemers voor jullie tijd, eerlijke feedback en enthousiasme! Ons onderzoek wordt na de zomer voortgezet als brede pilot met een grotere groep docenten en studenten. Onmisbaar voor het realiseren van onze missie om iedere MBO’er optimaal te ondersteunen bij het versterken van de basiskennis Rekenen.  #PersonalizedLearning #Education #MBOin2030 #Noorderpoort

Optimizing vocabulary learning: The Impact of MemoryLab’s ‘Quick Skip’ algorithm. In this text, our researcher Myrthe Braam demonstrates how MemoryLab’s learning system is able to optimize the learning process of English vocabulary from the EIBO lists.

Research on memory and forgetting spans multiple disciplines that often rely on different approaches and terminology. This paper by Andrea Stocco and colleagues brings together a computational cognitive science perspective on memory with a neurobiological understanding of the neural structures and dynamics that are involved. Research commentary by our senior researcher Maarten van der Velde. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/d9TGmcGJ

We are very proud of Thomas Wilschut for being awarded one of the four Computational Modeling Prizes of the Cognitive Science Society for his CogSci 2024 paper "Modality Matters: Evidence for the Benefits of Speech-Based Adaptive Retrieval Practice in Learners with Dyslexia", together with Florian Sense and Hedderik van Rijn. (https://lnkd.in/ekCgVjUi) “We found that typical learners outperform learners with dyslexia when they are asked to respond by typing, but that this difference is much smaller when learners can respond by speech. These results can contribute to the development of educational technology that allows for effective learning in neurodiverse individuals.” This prize recognises the best computational cognitive modelling work among the 1200+ papers submitted to the CogSci conference. Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/e_fkG8Yh 

Great article on MemoryLab in the NOLAI magazine. In the article we talk about how MemoryLab works and who has control. In our NOLAI Co-Creation Project we collaborate with the Montessori Scholen Amsterdam (MSA, including Berry Bock and Marijn Van Der Meer of Metis Montessori Lyceum) and Universiteit Utrecht (including Dr. Gesa van den Broek) on an innovative AI-based education project to replace traditional knowledge tests. The focus of this co-creation project is to revolutionise the assessment of learning and bring a positive change in the education system. With input from teachers, scientists, students, and AI-experts, we are developing an alternative to traditional factual-knowledge exams prevalent in secondary education.

We all know that as we get older, our memory changes: It becomes more difficult to remember things. Yet, surprisingly few studies have formally assessed how our memory system changes during the lifespan. Research commentary by our researcher Thomas Wilschut. The full paper is available via: https://lnkd.in/ekgP8rmR

We had an amazing time at TNW last week! It was fantastic to see the latest innovations and have great conversations with potential partners and investors. A big thanks to Het akkoord van Groningen, Gemeente Groningen for this opportunity and the good company in the Groningen corner! #TheNextWeb #TNW