On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 16:06 +0000, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 15:52:02 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > > […] > > > > http://www.intropsych.com/ch06_memory/magical_number_seven.html > > Won’t load for me(
How annoying. Definitely works for me as they say. It's a 2007 chapter from an introduction to psychology, the first sensible link that came up via a DuckDuckGo search. There are a variety of other places to look. Here's another. https://www.simplypsychology.org/short-term-memory.html > Anyhow far as I can tell it is a measure of how many entities > simultaniously you can hold in your attention, such objects in a > picture frame. It's a 1956 paper by Miller that claims 7 is the magic number for short term memory, the number of chunks of stuff you can keep for a certain period. A chunk is not a defined thing such as characters or words, but they are examples. I am not sure what the experimental status is of this "theory", but I suspect no-one has disproved it as yet. > This doesn’t represent long-term memory or other capacities, > which is likely the case here. Exactly. -- Russel. ========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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