Race Against Time: Toward the Principle of Optimization in Learning and Retention

Among all wonders of this world, the most wonderful of all is the fact that organisms can learn. More remarkably, there seems no definable limit to that capacity. This was and remains a profoundly intriguing and challenging fact throughout the history of learning and memory as an object of scholarship. •In the absence of such clear-cut limitations, we need not, but do nevertheless, marvel at the extraordinary achievements by those who strive for the ultimate, be they Nobel prize laureates, virtuosos in the arts, or Olympic athletes.