AMES, IA – Whether you’re trying to ace a test or pick up a new hobby, Iowa State Psychology Professor Shana Carpenter says combining two strategies – spacing and retrieval practice – is key to ...

One way to blurt when you study is by reading through your notes and materials, then putting them away and grabbing a blank ...

Any music educator understands the importance of a solid music education. Research has shown that learning and performing music provides cognitive and neuroscientific benefits, such as enhanced speech ...

Brain injury researchers have identified retrieval practice as a useful strategy for improving memory among children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury, researchers have found. Difficulties ...

Science, New Series, Vol. 354, No. 6315, SPECIAL ISSUE: STAYING ON TRACK: How circadian rhythms influence physiology and health (25 NOVEMBER 2016), pp. 1046-1048 (3 pages) More than a decade of ...

Kessler Foundation researchers have shown that retrieval practice can improve memory in individuals with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). "Retrieval Practice Improves Memory in Survivors of Severe ...

Today, we’ve asked Robert A. Bjork to share his tip of the week. This is the last in a four-part series on learning. You can read the first one here, the second here, and the third here. Years ago, ...

Researchers have shown that retrieval practice can improve memory in individuals with severe traumatic brain injury. Despite the small sample size, it was clear that retrieval practice was superior to ...

Last summer at the 26th International Conference on Improving College and University Teaching, in Johannesburg, South Africa, I was honored to share keynoting responsibilities with Nelson Mandela. One ...