How variability shapes learning and generalization

L Raviv, G Lupyan, SC Green - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Learning is using past experiences to inform new behaviors and actions. Because all
experiences are unique, learning always requires some generalization. An effective way of …

Similarity matters: A meta-analysis of interleaved learning and its moderators.

M Brunmair, T Richter - Psychological bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
An interleaved presentation of items (as opposed to a blocked presentation) has been
proposed to foster inductive learning (interleaving effect). A meta-analysis of the interleaving …

The sequence of study changes what information is attended to, encoded, and remembered during category learning.

PF Carvalho, RL Goldstone - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The sequence of study influences how we learn. Previous research has identified different
sequences as potentially beneficial for learning in different contexts and with different …

Interleaved practice in foreign language grammar learning: A field study.

J Schweppe, A Lenk-Blochowitz, M Pucher… - Journal of …, 2025 - psycnet.apa.org
Interleaving is an effective strategy to improve lasting learning. The idea is to practice
related, but distinct concepts in combination rather than separately. According to the …

Review on the prevalence and persistence of Neuromyths in education–where we stand and what is still needed

F Grospietsch, I Lins - Frontiers in Education, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The buzzword brain-based learning emerged in the 1970s and continues to fascinate
teachers and learners in schools and universities today. However, what interested teachers …

Interleaved presentation benefits science category learning

LG Eglington, SHK Kang - Journal of Applied Research in Memory and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study investigated whether the sequencing of exemplars affects learning of rule-
based science categories. We taught undergraduate students chemical categories by …

What you learn is more than what you see: What can sequencing effects tell us about inductive category learning?

PF Carvalho, RL Goldstone - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Inductive category learning takes place across time. As such, it is not surprising that the
sequence in which information is studied has an impact in what is learned and how efficient …

Reward learning over weeks versus minutes increases the neural representation of value in the human brain

GE Wimmer, JK Li, KJ Gorgolewski… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Over the past few decades, neuroscience research has illuminated the neural mechanisms
supporting learning from reward feedback. Learning paradigms are increasingly being …

Effects of inductive learning and gamification on news veracity discernment.

A Modirrousta-Galian, PA Higham… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
This preregistered study tests a novel psychological intervention to improve news veracity
discernment. The main intervention involved inductive learning (IL) training (ie, practice …

A systematic review of interleaving as a concept learning strategy

J Firth, I Rivers, J Boyle - Review of Education, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A systematic review was conducted into the effect of interleaving the order of examples of
concepts in terms of both memory of items and transfer to new items. This concept has …