The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
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"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" is one of the most highly cited papers in psychology.. It was published in 1956 by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller of Princeton University's Department of Psychology in Psychological Review. It is often interpreted to argue that the number of objects an average human can hold in working memory is 7 ± 2. This is frequently referred to as Miller's Law.
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See also
- 7 (number)
- Baddeley's model of working memory
- Chunking (psychology)
- Free recall
- Fitts's law
- Hick's law
- Subitizing
- Working memory
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