overlearning
Sign in to saveOverlearning refers to practicing newly acquired skills beyond the point of initial mastery. The term is also often used to refer to the pedagogical theory that this form of practice leads to automaticity or other beneficial consequences.
Research
667 papers- Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by rapidly making neurochemical processing inhibitory-dominant.Nature neuroscience · 2017
- Reorganization of the Neurobiology of Language After Sentence Overlearning.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022
- Overlearning of non-native speech sounds does not result in superior consolidation after a period of sleep.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020
- Overlearning, fluency, and automaticity.The Behavior analyst · 1996
- Retention as a function of degree of overlearning.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 1962
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Overlearning refers to practicing newly acquired skills beyond the point of initial mastery. The term is also often used to refer to the pedagogical theory that this form of practice leads to automaticity or other beneficial consequences.
== Early studies == thumb|Data from Ebbinghaus showing recall falling over time Memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus performed classical overlearning studies in the late 1890s. He noticed that memory for learned material decreased over time, following the line of a "forgetting curve". Ebbinghaus recognized that lists of nonsense syllables became more difficult to recall over time, and some lists required more review time to regain 100% recall. He defined overlearning as the number of repetitions of material after which it can be recalled with 100% accuracy.