The magic number four: Can it explain Sternberg's serial memory scan data?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (1):126-127 (2001)
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Cowan's concept of a pure short-term memory (STM) capacity limit is equivalent to that of memory subitizing. However, a robust phenomenon well known in the Sternberg paradigm, that is, the linear increase of RT as a function of memory set size is not consistent with this concept. Cowan's STM capacity theory will remain incomplete until it can account for this phenomenon.

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