everything in parmenides, for example, believed that it was a mixture of light and darkness that diogenes defined memory as a process of uniform distribution of air in the human body. now these theories seem to us, to put it mildly , naive and, of course, not scientific. but i’ll tell you how we finally came to science in this matter right now. internet sources name the german psychologist hermann ebenhaus, who worked in the 19th century with the main method, as an experimenter in the field of studying memory. he had a meaningless memorization of syllables and words experiment. he mainly bet on himself and eventually wrote a monograph, which was called a memory, but the first in the study of higher forms of memory among children was ours . soviet psychologist. lev vygotsky he was born back then in the mogilev province in the twenties of the last century. he also suggested that memory is the highest form of mental activity of social origin, and scientists smirnov and zinchenko studied involuntary memorization, when a person does not make any effort to remember information and meaningful me