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.
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Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.Hermann Ebbinghaus
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
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Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
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The learning of the syllables calls into play the three sensory fields, sight, hearing and the muscle sense of the organs of speech.
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The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
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