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