Our Ongoing Memory Modeling Research: An Informal Overview

The way we study material influences how well we retain it. Psychologists have established that spaced practice leads to better long-term retention of declarative knowledge (facts such as foreign language vocabulary) than massed practice. However, determining the appropriate amount of time between practice sessions is complex and depends on the duration of time over which the material must be available for recall. We are exploring existing and novel computational models to explain a range of data on massed versus spaced practice.