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Memory; a contribution to experimental psychology,

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Bussenius, Clara E., tr., Ruger, Henry Alford, 1872- tr.

University of Michigan Library Repository, 2013

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Abstract

The first scientific text on the psychology of memory. Relating retention to repetition, describing the shape of the forgetting curve, and measuring strength of association, Hermann Ebbinghaus extended the province of systematic, experimental research to the higher mental processes.

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