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In 1885, the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus published a groundbreaking study on human memory that would shape our understanding of how we learn for over a century. By memorising sequences of nonsense syllables - meaningless combinations of letters designed to eliminate prior associations - and then testing…

• What was unusual about the method Ebbinghaus used in his research?
• What does the writer find most striking about the forgetting curve?