Your brain is constantly forming new memories, based on experience and repetition. Scientists now know that cells in other parts of the body are working in similar ways. They may even form stronger “memories” through repeated behaviour alternated with periods of rest, much in the way our brains remember things better through repetition.

“Learning and memory in animals exhibit a peculiar feature known as the massed-spaced effect,” scientists from New York University wrote in new research that was just published in the journal Nature. “Training distributed across multiple sessions (spaced training) produces stronger memory than the same amount of training applied in a single episode (massed training).”