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Parallels between spacing effects during behavioral and cellular learning

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2012
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Title
Parallels between spacing effects during behavioral and cellular learning
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2012
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00203
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Jürgen Kornmeier, Zrinka Sosic-Vasic

Abstract

Repeated learning improves memory. Temporally distributed ("spaced") learning can be twice as efficient than massed learning. Importantly, learning success is a non-monotonic maximum function of the spacing interval between learning units. Further optimal spacing intervals seem to exist at different time scales from seconds to days. We briefly review the current state of knowledge about this "spacing effect" and then discuss very similar but so far little noticed spacing patterns during a form of synaptic plasticity at the cellular level, called long term potentiation (LTP). The optimization of learning is highly relevant for all of us. It may be realized easily with appropriate spacing. In our view, the generality of the spacing effect points to basic mechanisms worth for coordinated research on the different levels of complexity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 44 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 17%
Student > Bachelor 8 17%
Student > Master 7 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 10 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 11 24%
Neuroscience 9 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 11%
Linguistics 1 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 14 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 08 July 2021.
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#2,998,586
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#1,456
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#23,240
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#85
of 292 outputs
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