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• 06 Dec 21
  

  yanayana457

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• 07 Jun 18
  

  dfwolf

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• 03 Mar 17
  

  kcsorrell
  • Let me summarize the situation in this way. There is a clear and definite limit to the accuracy with which we can identify absolutely the magnitude of a unidimensional stimulus variable. I would propose to call this limit the span of absolute judgment, and I maintain that for unidimensional judgments this span is usually somewhere in the neighborhood of seven. We are not completely at the mercy of this limited span, however, because we have a variety of techniques for getting around it and increasing the accuracy of our judgments. The three most important of these devices are (a) to make relative rather than absolute judgments; or, if that is not possible, (b) to increase the number of dimensions along which the stimuli can differ; or (c) to arrange the task in such a way that we make a sequence of several absolute judgments in a row.
• 21 Sep 16
  

  ebenjmuse

  design principles

• 23 Mar 15
  

  snehapotnis

  cognitive-experiments

• 10 Aug 14
  

  Neil Mehta

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• 15 Aug 13
  

  loleyva
  • Summary
  • the span of absolute judgment and the span of immediate memory impose severe limitations on the amount of information that we are able to receive, process, and remember. By organizing the stimulus input simultaneously into several dimensions and successively into a sequence or chunks, we manage to break (or at least stretch) this informational bottleneck.

  • the concepts and measures provided by the theory of information provide a quantitative way of getting at some of these questions. The theory provides us with a yardstick for calibrating our stimulus materials and for measuring the performance of our subjects. In the interests of communication I have suppressed the technical details of information measurement and have tried to express the ideas in more familiar terms; I hope this paraphrase will not lead you to think they are not useful in research. Informational concepts have already proved valuable in the study of discrimination and of language; they promise a great deal in the study of learning and memory; and it has even been proposed that they can be useful in the study of concept formation. A lot of questions that seemed fruitless twenty or thirty years ago may now be worth another look. In fact, I feel that my story here must stop just as it begins to get really interesting. 

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• 19 Feb 13
  

  lebens
• 11 Oct 12
  

  Andrew Hiskens

  Seminal article by George A Miller about the limits of human short term memory, originally published in The Psychological Review, 1956, vol. 63, pp. 81-97. 

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• 04 Oct 12
  

  Catherine Lombardozzi

  Seven plus or minus two article

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• 08 Jul 12
  

  Mark Street
• 14 Nov 11
  

  vahid kh

  article psychology memory usability research learning seven-minus-plus-2

• 30 Jun 10
  

  Travis Taylor

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• 26 Feb 10
  

  mueller_f1

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• 28 Jan 10
  

  Edith Busija

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• 31 May 09
  

  gaspersopi

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• 07 Feb 09
  

  nlp psychology

• 02 Feb 08
  

  Christopher Allen

  "My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer. For seven years this number has followed me around, has intruded in my most private data, and has assaulted me from the pages of our most public journals. "
  

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• 26 Dec 07
  

  jerome CR

  design communication

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