Pomodoro Technique Illustrated

Absorbing

Relational memory, which is the ability to generalize across existing personal knowledge, is highly affected by offline time such as REM sleep or even small (awake) breaks from problem solving. One type of relational learning is transitive inference. For example, we initially learn individual premises; if we hear “Yellow is preferred to green” and “Green is preferred to violet,” then without ever explicitly being taught the relationship of yellow to violet, we infer that yellow is preferred to violet.

In 2007 Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen et al. tested separate groups of participants, each having achieved the same level of premise pair training, ...