Concerning structured training sessions, some authors suggest that each skill should

be trained once to several times a day depending on the difficulty of the skill (e.g.
Abrantes,
2000; Bailey, 1995), and some authors emphasize the importance of training in
increasingly
more disturbing environments and training more than one skill at a time (e.g. Egtved and
Køste, 2005).

The positive effect of spaced training on longterm

spatial memory in rats has also been shown by Spreng et al. (2002).

Horses learning an
avoidance response achieve a given learning criterion in significantly fewer training
sessions
when trained once a week compared to horses trained every day (Rubin et al., 1980).

The
opposite has been demonstrated in a study of yearling horses trained to trot with a rider
on a
track. This study showed at tendency towards daily training being more effective than
training
schedules with longer resting periods interposed (Kusunose and Yamanobe, 2002).

An expanding-spaced exposure to a fear eliciting stimulus

prevented return of fear in the subject, whereas a massed exposure schedule resulted in
better
fear reduction, but also in return of fear at a follow up assessment (Rowe and Craske,
1998).