Neural substrates of cognitive capacity limitations

Cognition has a severely limited capacity: Adult humans can retain only about four items “in mind”. This limitation is fundamental to human brain function: Individual capacity is highly correlated with intelligence measures and capacity is reduced in neuropsychiatric diseases. Although human capacit...

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Main Authors: Buschman, Tim, Siegel, Markus, Roy, Jefferson, Miller, Earl K.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69008
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1298-2761