Gains Show Up in the Pauses
When people practised a new finger sequence in ten-second bursts, their early gains showed up across the ten-second breaks, not during practice. Why is still debated.
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Growing evidenceThe research
- Bönstrup, M., Iturrate, I., Thompson, R., Cruciani, G., Censor, N., & Cohen, L. G. (2019). A rapid form of offline consolidation in skill learning. Current Biology, 29(8), 1346–1351.e4.
- Gupta, M. W., & Rickard, T. C. (2022). Dissipation of reactive inhibition is sufficient to explain post-rest improvements in motor sequence learning. npj Science of Learning, 7, Article 25.
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Gains Show Up in the Pauses
When people practised a new finger sequence in ten-second bursts, their early gains showed up across the ten-second breaks, not during practice. Why is still debated.
Source: Learning during short rests · Growing evidence
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