George Miller’s famous 1957 paper, ‘The Magic Number 7 Plus and Minus Two’ has been proven to be overly optimistic. Jeff Rouder and Nelson Cowan’s study, published in the April Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the average person struggles to keep just three or four things in their “working memory†or conscious mind at one time.
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