Making long-term memories in minutes: A spaced learning pattern from memory research in education

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Kelley, Paul ^a   Whatson, Terry ^b  

^a Science Technology in Learning   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education methods; Encoding; Long term memory; Long term potentiation; Spaced learning; Spaced retrieval

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NEUROSCIENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 84884677882     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00589     Document Type: Article

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