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I just wrote up a human memory section in my dissertation a few days ago. There seem to be two more widely accepted limits to working memory than George Miller
by azhenley 8y ago
I just wrote up a human memory section in my dissertation a few days ago.
There seem to be two more widely accepted limits to working memory than George Miller's 1950s limit: (A) 3-5 chunks [1] or (B) it depends greatly on the context and type of chunk (e.g., visuospatial) .
[1] N. Cowan. Metatheory of storage capacity limits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
24(1):154176, 2001.