The emergence of Miller's magic number on a sparse distributed memory.

Human memory is limited in the number of items held in one's mind--a limit known as "Miller's magic number". We study the emergence of such limits as a result of the statistics of large bitvectors used to represent items in memory, given two postulates: i) the Sparse Distributed...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Linhares, Daniel M Chada, Christian N Aranha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3016408?pdf=render