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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1800s, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus set out to memorize hundreds of nonsense syllables and discovered it was more efficient to space out his study sessions than to try to learn ...

As marketers we often struggle with getting customers to pay attention to our marketing messages, much less remember them. A specialized learning technique–the "spacing effect"–is helping people all ...

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 ...

According to the spacing effect, learning benefits are greater when an individual spreads her studies over a period of time instead of cramming all of it into a single session. It is believed that ...

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 ...