Disfluency

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cognition

education

recognition

reeducation

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easier is better?

complex is more substantial

certain types of difficulty can actually be beneficial

disfluency could improve learning

from rnz:

making something harder to read helps you remember more information

making things harder to read makes you remember more of the information.

So giving someone a textbook to read in a subtly unusual font will help learning.

It sounds a bit wacky

but it's been trialled in schools

and is an idea

that's being taken seriously.