
The Power of Overlearning
It can help to work on something you already know how to do
Victoria Sayo Turner is a PhD student studying neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco. She graduated from Amherst College in 2014 and worked at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2014 to 2016. Follow Victoria Sayo Turner on Twitter @vs_turner
It can help to work on something you already know how to do
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