Spaced practice (20 min. work, 24 hr. rest) was more efficient for 4 trials than massed practice (20 min. work, 90 sec. rest) in the learning of alpha enhancement by undergraduate women (Ns = 10) While the spaced group doubled their production of alpha, the massed group demonstrated almost no improvement.
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