According to current theories of expertise, this shouldn’t happen. Becoming an expert in chess, for example, makes you better at chess but not anything else. But our findings suggest that becoming an ...

In 1885 German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus detailed the idea of “spaced repetition,” or massed-spaced effect, in his book Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology. This refers to ...

In the 1880s, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus studied the phenomenon and published his findings, giving the world the ...

Humans are animals that forget. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) is known for his famous experiment where he made up a meaningless phrase and memorized it to study the process ...