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Human Memory

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More Time Spent Studying Improves Memory and Grades

The scientific study of memory began in the early 1880s when a German philosopher, Hermann Ebbinghaus, came up with the revolutionary idea hat memory could be studied experimentally.  In doing so he broke away from a 2,000-year-od tradition that firmly assigned the study of memory to the philosopher rather than to the scientist.  He argued that philosophers had come up with a wide range of possible interpretations of memory but had produced no way of deciding which among these theories offered the best explanation of … Continue Reading

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