Psychology
Why highlighting one thing can hurt your memory
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Using a neon marker to highlight text is mostly just sabotaging your own studying. The Von Restorff effect shows that an isolated, visually distinct item is remembered flawlessly, at the direct expense of everything surrounding it. You will flawlessly recall the one word you highlighted in pink, while entirely blanking on the entire actual paragraph.
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