Recent experiments by psychologists at Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh shed new light on how we learn and how we remember our real-world experiences. "Lots of prior research has ...

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 ...

Repetition is a key element of learning. If you want to remember something, come back to it again and again. But when and how you revisit information matters. Decades of research have shown that ...