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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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German psychologist, one of the founders of experimental research on memory.
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BirthplaceBarmen, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionTesting his own memory for nonsense syllables between 1880 and 1885, plotted the forgetting curve describing how newly learned material is lost rapidly at first and then more slowly over time. 2 Notable WorkUber das Gedachtnis (1885; translated as Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Halle, German Empire
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was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory
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In 1885, he published his groundbreaking Uber das Gedachtnis ("On Memory", later translated to English as Memory. A Contribution to Experimental Psychology)
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Ebbinghaus's experiment has significantly contributed to experimental psychology. He was the first to carry out a series of well-designed experiments on the subject of forgetting.
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