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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Main Authors: Christopher D. Smith, Damian Scarf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00962/full