While the learning curve gets plenty of attention, far fewer people talk, or even know, about the forgetting curve, and it may be just as critical. First identified by psychologist Hermann ...

Ten workshop participants from Leiden, Birmingham, the UK and Egypt will focus on material and linguistic aspects of the process of forgetting. Exploring themes such as iconoclasm, damnatio memoriae, ...

German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus spent years testing memory to map out the Forgetting Curve, which shows that we forget most information within hours of learning it unless we reinforce it.

Think again. More than a century ago, a German psychologist named Hermann Ebbinghaus proposed a theory called the 'forgetting curve'. It even had a formula. Simply, it states that once you have ...