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Pavlik, Philip I.; Anderson, John R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2008
By balancing the spacing effect against the effects of recency and frequency, this paper explains how practice may be scheduled to maximize learning and retention. In an experiment, an optimized condition using an algorithm determined with this method was compared with other conditions. The optimized condition showed significant benefits with…
Descriptors: Intervals, Effect Size, Recall (Psychology), Experimental Psychology
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Janus, Christopher – Learning & Memory, 2004
TgCRND8 mice represent a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, with onset of cognitive impairment and increasing amyloid-[beta] plaques in their brains at 12 weeks of age. In this study, the spatial memory in 25- to 30-week-old TgCRND8 mice was analyzed in two reference and one working memory Morris water maze (MWM) tests. In reference…
Descriptors: Pathology, Nonverbal Learning, Spatial Ability, Learning Strategies