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Magical attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Peter M. Milner
Peter M. Milner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1, Canada pmilne@po-box.mcgill.ca
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Abstract

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Cowan postulates that the capacity of short-term memory is limited to the number of items to which attention can be simultaneously directed. Unfortunately, he endows attention with unexplained properties, such as being able to locate the most recent inputs to short-term memory, so his theory does little more than restate the data.

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Type
Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 131
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press