Chunking of Control: An Unrecognized Aspect of Cognitive Resource Limits
Why do we divide (‘chunk’) long tasks into a series of shorter subtasks? A popular view is that limits in working memory (WM) prevent us from simultaneously maintaining all task relevant information in mind. We therefore chunk the task into smaller units so that we only maintain information in WM th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2023-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Cognition |
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| Online Access: | https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/275 |