Interleaved Practice: Neuroscience of Mixed Skills | MindLAB
Interleaved Practice vs. Blocked Practice: The Neuroscience of Why Mixing Skills Outperforms Repetitive Training Interleaved practice is a learning schedule that mixes skills across a single session — ABCABCABC instead of AAABBBCCC. Across controlled trials and a 2019 Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis, this mixed schedule produces substantially better retention at delayed test, often roughly doubling performance on novel problems. The mechanism is contextual interference — repeated reconstruction of skills from memory rather than rehearsal of cached patterns. ...
