Wondering if any educational/cognitive people might have any idea…
If one is performing a memorization task, like say something mundane like memorizing vocabulary of a foreign language, what is the best way to reinforce the material? Should you quiz yourself immediately after learning the material, or wait some length of time to see what obviously stuck immediately from what obviously didn’t? I’m just wondering if there is any generally accepted model for this.
Not sure how helpful this will be, but a recent SciAm article on memory (rats or rabbits, can’t remember), showed that a 10 or 15 minute interval between repeated exposures to the same inputs was optimal for creating long term pathways between neurons.