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Direct linkMathy, Fabien; Feldman, Jacob – Cognition, 2012
Short term memory is famously limited in capacity to Miller's (1956) magic number 7 plus or minus 2--or, in many more recent studies, about 4 plus or minus 1 "chunks" of information. But the definition of "chunk" in this context has never been clear, referring only to a set of items that are treated collectively as a single unit. We propose a new…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Stimuli, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
