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The Emergence of Miller's Magic Number on a Sparse Distributed Memory

Author(s) -

Alexandre da Costa Linhares,

Daniel M. Chada,

Christian N. Aranha

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

plos one

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99

H-Index - 332

ISSN - 1932-6203

DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0015592

Subject(s) - chunking (psychology) , miller , magic (telescope) , computer science , cognitive science , biology , psychology , artificial intelligence , physics , ecology , quantum mechanics

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 Memory; and ii) chunking through averaging. Potential implications for theoretical neuroscience are discussed.

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