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Memory

This book delves into the complexities of human memory and its impact on personal identity, weaving a narrative that challenges the reader's understanding of memory and its role in shaping one's self. more

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Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 - February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist, known as one of the pioneers of experimental psychology. He is renowned for his research on memory, particularly his studies on the memorization of meaningless syllables. more

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“Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.”

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Book:Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
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“One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased”

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Book:Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
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“Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together”

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Book:Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
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