Continuous training conducted after performance improvement has been maximized is called overlearning. Musicians, for example, believe that it is crucial to continue to practice the same piece of ...

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People who continued to train on a visual task for 20 minutes past the point of mastery locked in that learning, shielding it from interference by new learning, a new study shows. Want to learn ...

Psychologists have been assessing how well various study strategies produce long-term learning, and it appears that some strategies really do work much better than others. Surprisingly "massing" all ...

When you want to learn something new, you practice. Once you get the hang of it, you can hopefully do what you learned—whether it’s parallel parking or standing backflips—on the next day, and the next ...

Practice makes perfect, but a new study shows you might need to keep practicing even when you think you are perfect already. Known as 'overlearning' the technique has been shown to make people ...