Hermann Ebbinghaus:
A) was both the experimenter and the only participant in his pioneering research on forgetting.
B) was the psychologist who discovered that the duration of short-term memory was seven items, plus or minus two.
C) received the Nobel Prize for his landmark studies describing how the structure and function of neurons change when new memories are formed.
D) was the physiological psychologist who attempted to find the specific brain location of particular memories.

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Hermann Ebbinghaus conducted pioneering research on forgetting and was both the experimenter and the only participant in his studies.