Spacing Repetitions Over Long Timescales: A Review and a Reconsolidation Explanation

Recent accounts of the spacing effect have proposed molecular explanations that explain spacing over short, but not long timescales. In the first half of this paper, we review research on the spacing effect that has employed spaces of 24 h or more across skill-related tasks, language-related tasks a...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychology 2017-06, Vol.8, p.962
Main Authors: Smith, Christopher D., Scarf, Damian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
distributed practice
inverted-U curve
learning
Psychology
reconsolidation
retention
spacing effect
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