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2 unusual facts about Théodule-Armand Ribot


Art of representation

In a state of absorption, he or she responds 'naturally' and 'organically' to that situation and the events that proceed from it (a 'natural' and 'organic' response conceived along lines originating from Pavlovian behaviourism and James-Lang via Ribot Psychophysiology).

Memory consolidation

He noted the “curious fact… that the interval of a single night will greatly increase the strength of the memory,” and presented the possibility that “… the power of recollection .. undergoes a process of ripening and maturing during the time which intervenes.” The process of consolidation was later proposed based on clinical data illustrated in 1882 by Ribot’s Law of Regression, “progressive destruction advances progressively from the unstable to the stable”.


Second-language attrition

The first one, who designed it was Ribot in 1880, later on Freud took Ribot's idea up again and brought it in connection with aphasia.


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