Purpose This study aims to determine the effect of distribution practice on learning forehand shot in tennis. Method Twenty-four beginner tennis players participated (13 males and 11 female; 8.63 ± 0.92 years old). The were separated after groups -massed ( N = 12) distributed 12). Each group practiced for 12 sessions, 4 series per session 10 trials/series (6 weeks). accuracy efficacy measured t...

We explored the perception of phonetic continua generated with an automated auditory morphing technique in three perceptual experiments. The use of large sets of stimuli allowed an assessment of the impact of single vs. paired presentation without the massed stimulus repetition typical of categorical perception experiments. A third experiment shows that such massed repetition alters the degree ...

The purpose of the study was to activate the passive lexical knowledge through noticing and to investigate the effect of sentence writing as the post task of noticing activity on strengthening the effect of noticing. Forty-two Iranian female adult upper-intermediate English students of a state university in 2 homogenous groups participated in noticing the lexical items whose production were not...

Observing category exemplars in an interleaved manner is more beneficial for inductive learning than blocked (massed) presentation, a phenomenon termed the interleaving effect on learning. However, people tend to erroneously believe that massed learning, and learners prefer former during self-regulated We report four experiments designed investigate whether explicit instructions, which include ...

UNLABELLED We investigated theoretically and empirically a range of training schedules on tasks with three knowledge types: declarative, procedural, and perceptual-motor. We predicted performance for 6435 potential eight-block training schedules with ACT-R's declarative memory equations. Hybrid training schedules (schedules consisting of distributed and massed practice) were predicted to produc...