Waiting between rewards may help the brain learn faster. New research shows timing, not repetition, drives stronger learning updates.

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists have assumed the dog learned this through repetition. The more times the dog heard ...

Just as “turnt,” “on fleek,” and “adulting” have become trending words in pop culture, so too has “spaced repetition” become a buzzword in education. Some educators are obsessed with it. Others say it ...

Understand rote learning, how it works in classrooms, its benefits, limitations, and where repetition-based learning still ...

Lilli Kimppa from the University of Helsinki studied language acquisition in the brain. Even short repetitive exposure to novel words induced a rapid neural response increase that is suggested to ...

Training individuals with those with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to acquire new information by repeating the information actually harms their ability to apply that learned knowledge to other ...

U.K. startup Wranx is applying a learning technique called spaced repetition to the b2b space to help businesses train their staff more effectively. This technique will be familiar to users of ...

Repetitive drills are often used to help individuals with autism learn new skills, but new research suggests that this approach may do more harm than good. Rather than enhance their abilities, ...