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The magic number and the episodic buffer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Alan Baddeley
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TN, United Kingdomalan.baddeley@bristol.ac.uk www.psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/psybris

Abstract

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 theoretical context, since this will influence what evidence to include and how to interpret it. He presents his model however, as a contrast to the working memory model of Baddeley (1986). I suggest that this reflects a misinterpretation of our model resulting in a danger of focusing attention on pseudo-problems rather than genuine disparities between his approach and my own.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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