Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American‘s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin.
They say that practice makes perfect. But sometimes the best practice is not on a keyboard …[CLIP: Piano sounds]
It’s all in your head. Because a new study shows that the brain takes advantage of the rest periods during practice to review new skills, a mechanism that facilitates learning. The work appears in the journal Cell Reports. [Ethan R. Buch et al., Consolidation of human skill linked to waking hippocampo-neocortical replay]
Cohen: We know from previous research that interspersing rest with practice during training is advantageous for learning a new skill. In fact, we recently showed that virtually all early skill learning is evidenced during rest rather than during the actual practice.
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