We know timing is important for learning. But time isn’t just about the duration of short-term and working memory; it’s also the spacing out of learning so that we can exploit the way we retain learned information. We call this the spacing effect. A related phenomenon concerns the order in which we present information. For […]| The Emotional Learner
The spacing effect is a curious beast. It’s certainly not new, the general premise dating back to Robert Hooke’s lecture to the Royal Society of London in 1682. Despite Hooke’s contribution, the phenomenon is generally attributed to Ebbinghaus’s memory experiments, published in 1885. That still makes it an old idea. Adolf Jost then confirmed these […]| The Emotional Learner