N Cowan - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Commentators expressed a wide variety of views on whether there is a basic capacity limit of 3 to 5 chunks and, among those who believe in it, about why it occurs. In this response, I …
A Baddeley - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Cowan's revisiting of the magic number is very timely and the case he makes for a more moderate number than seven is persuasive. It is also appropriate to frame his case within a …
M Usher, JD Cohen, H Haarmann… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2001 - cambridge.org
The aim of our commentary is to strengthen Cowan's proposal for an inherent capacity limitation in STM by suggesting a neurobiological mechanism based on competitive …
JS Nairne, I Neath - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Cowan assumes that chunk-based capacity limits are synonymous with the essence of a “specialized STM mechanism.” In a single experiment, we measured the capacity, or span …
BJ Scholl, Y Xu - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Some of the evidence for a “magical number 4” has come from the study of visual cognition, and Cowan reinterprets such evidence in terms of a single general limit on memory and …
B McElree, BA Dosher - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Measures of retrieval speed for recently presented events show a sharp dichotomy between representations in focal attention and representations that are recently processed but no …
BL Bachelder - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
According to span theory, a behavioral theory of the magical numbers, Cowan's 4 and Miller's 7 are simply two different points on the same ogive describing the relation between …
S Grondin - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
A temporal account of the mental capacities for processing information may not be relevant in a context where the goal is to search for storage capacity expressed in chunks. However …
J Pascual-Leone - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Cowan fails to obtain a magical number of 7 because his analysis is faulty. This is revealed by an alternative analysis of Cowan's own tasks. The analysis assumes a number 7 for …