“The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 85

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German psychologist 1850–1909

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