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Spacing Repetitions Over Long Timescales: A Review and a Reconsolidation Explanation

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
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Title
Spacing Repetitions Over Long Timescales: A Review and a Reconsolidation Explanation
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Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00962
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Authors

Christopher D. Smith, Damian Scarf

Abstract

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 and generalization for adults and children. Throughout this review, we distinguish between learning and retention by defining learning (or acquisition) as performance at the end of training and retention as performance after a delay period. Using this distinction, we find age- and task-related differences in the manifestation of the spacing effect over long timescales. In the second half of this paper, we discuss a reconsolidation account of the spacing effect. In particular, we review the evidence that suggests the spacing of repetitions influences the subsequent consolidation and reconsolidation processes; we explain how a reconsolidation account may explain the findings for learning; the inverted-U curve for retention; and compare the reconsolidation account with previous consolidation accounts of the spacing effect.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 140 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 15%
Student > Bachelor 16 11%
Researcher 11 8%
Other 7 5%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 47 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 24 17%
Neuroscience 14 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 9%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Other 23 16%
Unknown 53 38%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 April 2023.
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#102
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