Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a pioneering psychologist known for studying how we learn and forget information. He conducted experiments on himself, testing how well he could remember lists of nonsense syllables over time. His most famous finding is the "forgetting curve," which shows that we forget new information rapidly at first but retain some details longer if we review regularly. Ebbinghaus's work helped establish the science of memory and demonstrated that spaced repetition improves long-term recall, influencing modern learning and teaching methods.