A Simple Practice Scheduling Hack That Couldn’t Possibly Be as Effective as It Seems
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The Effects of Sleep on Learning
French researchers found that spacing practice out results in better learning and long-term retention than cramming it all together. Two groups of 20 participants were tasked with learning the French translations of 16 Swahili words. One group had their first study session at 9am, and their relearning session at 9pm on the same day. The other group was tested 12 hours later to see how many word pairs they could recall from the previous study session. As you probably guessed, the sleep group did better, recalling about 10 transitions versus 7 for the Wake group.
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