Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers: Richard Semon and the Story of Memory - Daniel L. Schacter - Google Books

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Richard Semon was a German evolutionary biologist who wrote, during the first decade of the twentieth century, two fascinating analyses of the workings of human memory which were ahead of their time. Although these have been virtually unknown to modern…