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The magic number four: Can it explain Sternberg's serial memory scan data?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Jerwen Jou
Jerwen Jou
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 jjou@panam.edu www.w3.panam.edu/~jjou
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Abstract

Cowan's concept of a pure short-term memory (STM) capacity limit is equivalent to that of memory subitizing. However, a robust phenomenon well known in the Sternberg paradigm, that is, the linear increase of RT as a function of memory set size is not consistent with this concept. Cowan's STM capacity theory will remain incomplete until it can account for this phenomenon.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 126 - 127
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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