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Highly recommend first reading the wikipedia entry on working memory capacity. Nelson Cowan's work showing that a limit of 4 +- 1 pops up quite a bit, and subse
by closed 7y ago
Highly recommend first reading the wikipedia entry on working memory capacity. Nelson Cowan's work showing that a limit of 4 +- 1 pops up quite a bit, and subsequent investigations of why earlier research got 7 is key here. 7 shows up when people are allowed to subvocalize, and are being tested on "verbalizable" material.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory#Capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory#Capacity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory#cite_note-23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory#cite_note-23
- penagwin 7y agoThis explains a lot for me! I have terrible working memory in general, but in our psych classes when they did the memory experiment on the classroom I could only ever remember ~4 items instead of the expected 7 to 8.