“The amount of retention in the case of the verse-series is many times greater than in the case of the nonsense-syllables.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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About Hermann Ebbinghaus

Psychologist • German

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a pioneering German psychologist who applied experimental methods to the study of higher mental processes. He is best known for his discovery of the forgetting curve, which describes the...

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