A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
Hermann EbbinghausAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: January 24, 1850
- Died: February 26, 1909
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