Resting after learning or repeating the learned?
Markus Martini, Tom Mercer, Luis Gutmann, Stephan Frederic Dahm, Robert Marhenke, Pierre Sachse · 2025
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Description
Markus Martini and co-authors compared rest and repetition after learning in 2025. What a learner does right after study shapes how much sticks. Quiet wakeful rest is known to help memory settle, but how it stacks up against simply hearing the material again was unclear.
Volunteers studied three spoken word lists, each followed by seven minutes of re-listening, quiet rest, or a fresh task. Recall was best after repetition, next after rest, and worst after the fresh task. The ranking held at twelve minutes and again a day later. Rest stays a cheap, easy way to aid memory, the authors conclude, but repetition beats it head to head.
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| CREATOR | Markus Martini, Tom Mercer, Luis Gutmann, Stephan Frederic Dahm, Robert Marhenke, Pierre Sachse |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |