How to Consolidate Skill Memory

The same amount of practice results in significantly different skill depending on the presence or absence of waking rest within the training schedule, a phenomenon termed the spacing effect. Consolidation of skill is superior when frequent rest periods are interspersed with practice blocks distributed practice. When the same total amount of practice is performed over longer continuous blocks, aka mast practice,. All right, so that takes me to the three takeaways here. One, allow frequent breaks.