This claim seems super super important in terms of fundamental modeling of fundamental cognitive constraints:
Early George A. Miller work estimated that the typical mind was able to hold 5 ± 2 chunks, but more recent work suggests we are limited at about 4 chunks.
Why do you think this is true? (Here I cross my fingers and hope for a long explanation, with many links, and discussion of replication failures or a lack thereof <3)
Miller work was insightful on discarding bits of information in favor of chunks but it was written in a very informal tone. That stymied further research for a long time but when restarted, researchers realized that you can get very rich set of features but about a small number of chunks. See this summary of the story.
This claim seems super super important in terms of fundamental modeling of fundamental cognitive constraints:
Why do you think this is true? (Here I cross my fingers and hope for a long explanation, with many links, and discussion of replication failures or a lack thereof <3)
Miller work was insightful on discarding bits of information in favor of chunks but it was written in a very informal tone. That stymied further research for a long time but when restarted, researchers realized that you can get very rich set of features but about a small number of chunks. See this summary of the story.