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The dangers of taking capacity limits too literally

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

S. E. Avons ,
Geoff Ward  and
Riccardo Russo
S. E. Avons
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester CO7 6SJ, United Kingdom savons@essex.ac.ukgdward@essex.ac.ukrrusso@essex.ac.uk www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/sa.html www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/gw.html www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/rr.html
Geoff Ward
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester CO7 6SJ, United Kingdom savons@essex.ac.ukgdward@essex.ac.ukrrusso@essex.ac.uk www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/sa.html www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/gw.html www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/rr.html
Riccardo Russo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester CO7 6SJ, United Kingdom savons@essex.ac.ukgdward@essex.ac.ukrrusso@essex.ac.uk www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/sa.html www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/gw.html www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/people/rr.html
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Abstract

The empirical data do not unequivocally support a consistent fixed capacity of four chunks. We propose an alternative account whereby capacity is limited by the precision of specifying the temporal and spatial context in which items appear, that similar psychophysical constraints limit number estimation, and that short term memory (STM) is continuous with long term memory (LTM).

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 114 - 115
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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