> Supposedly people can hold about seven "items" in their mind at any one time. I was never sure what that meant -- what qualifies as an "item"? This urban leg

> Supposedly people can hold about seven "items" in their mind at any one time. I was never sure what that meant -- what qualifies as an "item"? This urban legend PB refers to actually originated with studies of short-term memory and remembering sequences of digits. See http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:PP_hzY7PqKgJ:www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/misart.pdf http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:PP_hzY7PqKgJ:www.knosof....