Comments on: Boosting Learning With the Power of Passive Exposure https://neurosciencenews.com/passive-exposure-learning-25531/ Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences. Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:18:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Fledginpidgin https://neurosciencenews.com/passive-exposure-learning-25531/#comment-74941 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 01:16:59 +0000 https://neurosciencenews.com/?p=99719#comment-74941 I tried this on myself once! not quite a formal study, but I tried learning American Sign Language (as a hearing person previously unaware of Deaf culture) from scratch, and when I was relaxing between learning I watched my way through the show “Switched At Birth” which spends a lot of time having characters using accurate ASL to communicate dialog.

It was the fastest I ever became fluent in something. About 3 months.

Maybe just anecdotal, but I can personally recommend it and am excited to see formal research moving in this direction. :)

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