The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 631-643 (13 pages) One version of deficient-processing theory attributes the lag effects observed in free recall to a diversion of ...

Increased letter spacing helps individuals read faster, but not due to visual processing, according to new research. Increased letter spacing helps individuals read faster, but not due to visual ...

In the late 19th century German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus published an influential book exploring memory and learning. Ebbinghaus was the first to chronicle a learning phenomenon which became ...

The spacing effect is unintuitive. The common misconception is that massed practice is better than spaced practice. In fact it’s the opposite: If you're going to study something twice (or more), you ...

Most people space out at some point during their day. And while it’s totally normal for your mind to wander here and there, new research shows that people who are regularly spacey might have some ...

We remember things longer if we take breaks during learning, referred to as the spacing effect. Scientists gained deeper insight into the neuronal basis for this phenomenon in mice. With longer ...

Repetition is a key element of learning. If you want to remember something, come back to it again and again. But when and how you revisit information matters. Decades of research have shown that ...