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Testing improves memory: Study examines why memory is enhanced by repeated retrieval

June 16, 2011 by

Many psychologists have believed that testing is good for memory, but only for the exact thing you are trying to remember: so-called "target memory." In a new study, researchers set out to test whether practice testing might boost other types of memory, too. Their conclusion: it does.

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