During my 20 time project experience, I challenged myself in many ways. My group had a very hard time choosing topic since the majority of our ideas were either to large to accomplish with our resources and current knowledge or were very simplistic and un-impactful. Our main challenge was to tailor our project in a way that could have an impact on people and that can be used by others for their own benefit, and we sought to accomplish this through our project itself. Our goal was to come to a definite conclusion in our project and to hopefully discover an idea that would help others. In the process I also created the goal of self improvement since I had to learn to compromise and work with my partner to achieve a unified goal. Our plan to achieve this goal was through multiple experiments that would test a base question that we had and to see the applications of this research in real life.
The question for out project was "Can impairing different senses enable students to retain information better?" We tested this question through multiple experiments in which we deprive the sense of one patient and leave the other untouched. We would then have them memorize a piece weather through hearing or sight, and recorded which patient had the better results. We found that in the case of hearing and sight, depriving one of their senses did in fact allow them to memorize information more efficiently and increase concentration. However, we had to run our experiment multiple times in order to come to a definite conclusion, and in doing so ran into the problem of finding willing test subjects. Luckily, we found members in our class who were willing to participate, and their results corroborated our conclusion. We learned that sensory deprivation can improve concentration and memorization not only through our tests, but also the research we did on brain plasticity and other information of interest.
If I had a chance to do this project again, I would try to collaborate with professionals within our field of research so as to gain more insight into our question and use different tools to see weather parts of the brain had actually plasticized or weather the results were the result of different outside factors. In the future we hope to share our experiment and results with others and if given the opportunity do more research into our challenge and further our goal.
The question for out project was "Can impairing different senses enable students to retain information better?" We tested this question through multiple experiments in which we deprive the sense of one patient and leave the other untouched. We would then have them memorize a piece weather through hearing or sight, and recorded which patient had the better results. We found that in the case of hearing and sight, depriving one of their senses did in fact allow them to memorize information more efficiently and increase concentration. However, we had to run our experiment multiple times in order to come to a definite conclusion, and in doing so ran into the problem of finding willing test subjects. Luckily, we found members in our class who were willing to participate, and their results corroborated our conclusion. We learned that sensory deprivation can improve concentration and memorization not only through our tests, but also the research we did on brain plasticity and other information of interest.
If I had a chance to do this project again, I would try to collaborate with professionals within our field of research so as to gain more insight into our question and use different tools to see weather parts of the brain had actually plasticized or weather the results were the result of different outside factors. In the future we hope to share our experiment and results with others and if given the opportunity do more research into our challenge and further our goal.
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