A bridge between cramming and "classic" SRS?

[Oisín]

A recent paper by Kelley and Whatson [1] describes an approach to learning which uses short-term spaced repetition to better exploit the information encoding and LTM activation processes. They advocate a pattern of 20 minutes study, 10 mins break doing something very different (i.e. physical), then two sessions of 20 mins review separated by another 10 min break.

I found out about the work here [2].

Has anyone heard of this and/or experimented with an SRS like Mnemosyne, modified to review the same day/session's items in a scheme such as that described by Kelley and Whatson? It could probably be done via a plugin. A couple of spaced repetition systems do something almost like this by default; namely Pauker and Memrise.

Since it's very well accepted that spaced repetition is far superior to cramming, it'd be nice to see a study comparing the effectiveness of learning under three conditions: 1) control, 2) classic SRS (with a minimum resolution of 1 day) and 3) classic SRS supplemented by the study->distraction->review->distraction->review pattern described in the paper.

Oisín

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[1] http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00589/full

[2] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/memory-medic/201310/new-strategy-more-efficient-learning

[George Wade]

If the distraction is long and relaxing enough:  it should have a positive effect on the second study period.  Though I could hardly test this on Japanese students;  they are all go, go !

If the distraction is exercise, perhaps intense interval training:  I would not be surprised if it had a very positive effect on acuity and memory.  Shall be interested in your accumulated wisdom !

George

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