Working Memory Capacity: Limits on the Bandwidth of Cognition

Why can your brain store a lifetime of experiences but process only a few thoughts at once? In this article we discuss “cognitive capacity” (the number of items that can be held “in mind” simultaneously) and suggest that the limit is inherent to processing based on oscillatory brain rhythms, or “bra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miller, Earl K., Buschman, Tim
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96358