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EPISODE · Mar 31, 2026 · 10 MIN

It's Not Practice That Makes Perfect—It's Patience: How Timing Trumps Repetition in Learning

from The Psychology of People

A UCSF study overturns 125 years of learning theory: the brain learns not from how many times you repeat something, but from how much time passes between repetitions. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

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