Introducing periods where rehearsal is not possible enhances memory encoding.

“Gap effects are the very well demonstrated effect of let's say you're teaching me how to um shuffle cards or a sequence of numbers or scales on a piano I'm practicing I'm practicing I'm practicing but somebody figured out that if every once in a while there's a gap introduced where I cannot perform the rehearsal I do nothing the brain does the same thing the hippocampus a center in the brain required for memory and encoding of new memories plays that same sequence at 20 to 30 times faster and in Reverse”