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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Jerwen Jou
Jerwen Jou
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 jjou@panam.edu www.w3.panam.edu/~jjou
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Abstract

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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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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 126 - 127
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press