{"pk":26998,"title":"The impact of practice frequency on learning and retention","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The current study manipulated how frequently different prob-lems were practiced during a first day of practice, with themore frequent items being more closely spaced. Fitting thedata to a skill acquisition model, we find that greater spac-ing between items is associated with an increased probabilityof transitioning to more efficient phases of performance, butwith a shallower speedup within each phase. Three days aftertraining, we find that performance is predicted not by the prac-tice frequency during training, but rather by the phase of skillacquisition attained during training. Thus, it is type of pro-cessing achieved not the amount and spacing of practice, thatdetermines retention. Spacing, however, promotes learning bydriving changes in cognitive processing.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Skill acquisition; Practice frequency; Spacing ef-fect; Learning; Retention"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dr7k4qq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Caitlin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tenison","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"John","middle_name":"R.","last_name":"Anderson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26998/galley/16634/download/"}]}